Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "betrayal"

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi ** (2017, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Carrie Fisher, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Dern, Kelly Marie Tran) – Movie Review

Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi is nominated for four Oscars and has earned a fortune ($1,311,425,821 by 28 January 2018) but it is a letdown and certainly comes complete with a full cargo […]

Feb, 18

The Cimarron Kid *** (1952, Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler, James Best, Yvette Dugay, Hugh O’Brian, Noah Beery Jr, Rand Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 6489

Director Budd Boetticher’s solid 1952 Western stars Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin, aka The Cimarron Kid, who lands up behind bars after making one last ride in a train heist with the Dalton gang of Bob, Grat, Emmett […]

Dec, 29

1% ** (2017, Eddie Baroo, Ryan Corr, Aaron Fa’aoso, Matt Nable, Simone Kessell, Abbey Lee) – Movie Review 

Director Stephen McCallum’s punchy low-budget 2017 Australian crime thriller plays like a Sixties/ Seventies biker movie. It has a certain basic raw energy and revving dynamism on its side, but obviously it avoids anything like […]

Oct, 01

The Wrong Trousers **** (1993, voice of Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 5566

Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s amusing, clever, and appealing 1993 Oscar-winning animated short film is the second of his four Academy Award winners, following Creature Comforts (1989). Peter Sallis again voices Wallace, who is used by […]

Jun, 09

Frank & Lola ** (2016, Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Justin Long, Michael Nyqvist, Emmanuelle Devos, Rosanna Arquette) – Movie Review

Michael Shannon rivets the attention as troubled chef Frank, a fiery cauldron always about to bubble over, way out-classing Imogen Poots as his girlfriend Lola, in debut writer-director Matthew Ross’s darkly playful, teasing psycho-sexual love […]

Apr, 11

Touchez Pas au Grisbi ***** (1954, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Gaby Basset, Daniel Cauchy, René Dary, Dora Doll, Paul Frankeur) – Classic Movie Review 5007

A sad and smokey bitter-sweet Gallic atmosphere of tired desperation pervades co-writer/ director Jacques Becker’s 1954 wry classic French noir gangster crime thriller. A movie based on Albert Simonin’s novel was always going to be good, […]

Feb, 04

T2 Trainspotting **** (2017, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, Anjela Nedyalkova) – Movie Review

Two decades on from Trainspotting (1996), the 46-year-old Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns from a new life in Amsterdam to the one place he can call home, Edinburgh, where he is reunited with Spud (Ewen Bremner), […]

Jan, 20

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