Derek Winnert

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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

THX 1138 ***½ (1971, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie) – Classic Movie Review 4740

Set in a George Orwell-style computer-controlled tomorrow of the 25th century, when people are known by letters and numbers and a man and a woman rebel against the rigidly controlled society, co-writer/ director George Lucas’s […]

Dec, 02

Shaft *** (2000, Samuel L Jackson, Christian Bale, Toni Collette, Richard Roundtree, Jeffrey Wright, Vanessa L Williams, Dan Hedaya, Busta Rhymes) – Classic Movie Review 4585

Samuel L Jackson proves that Shaft is still the man in this strong but worrying and not very likeable updated version of the classic Seventies thriller, Shaft (1971). Co-writer/ director John Singleton’s 2000 action movie sees […]

Nov, 03

A Street Cat Named Bob **** (2016, Luke Treadaway, Bob the Cat, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head) – Movie Review

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 2015 feel good true story comedy drama is a loveable boy meets cat, falls for cat, lives happily ever after love story. Luke Treadaway as the boy is nearly as cute and good […]

Nov, 01

Fast & Furious 5 [Fast Five] ***½ (2011, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Gal Gadot, Joaquim de Almeida, Ludacris) – Classic Movie Review 4537

Justin Lin and Chris Morgan, the director and writer of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), return for the thrilling, hard-revving 2011 American action film fifth instalment in the franchise. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster (all reprising […]

Oct, 26

Go **** (1999, Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner, Katie Holmes) – Classic Movie Review 4228

Sarah Polley (as Ronna), Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner and Katie Holmes star in director Doug Liman’s clever and exciting 1999 multiple perspectives crime comedy, in which the events that follow some young Californians’ drugs deal are […]

Sep, 20

My Name Is Joe **** (1998, Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis, David McKay, Lorraine McIntosh, Anne-Marie Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 4233

The best and worst of life on one of the toughest Glasgow estates are observed in writer Paul Laverty and director Ken Loach’s raw and insightful 1998 film. Peter Mullan stars as the man named Joe, an out […]

Aug, 25

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