Derek Winnert

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Empire State ** (1987, Cathryn Harrison, Jason Hoganson, Glen Murphy, Ian Sears, Martin Landau, Ray McAnally) – Classic Movie Review 10,769

Director Ron Peck’s 1987 crime thriller Empire State is an intriguing attempt to bring the American gangster style to Britain in an adult yarn about a young Yankee mobster arriving at the title nightclub to […]

Jan, 08

Moffie ***** (2019, Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey) – Movie Review

Oliver Hermanus’s beautiful yet brutal study of closeted homosexuality in the Apartheid-era military. Back in the bad old days of Apartheid and the early Eighties, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Van der Swart is a self-denying gay man […]

Oct, 09

Le Battant [The Fighter] [Ice] *** (1983, Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Pierre Mondy, François Périer, Andréa Ferréol) – Classic Movie Review 5,556

Alain Delon gives an intense star turn as Jacques Darnay, convicted for stealing diamonds, released from jail, but pursued by Inspector Rouxel (Pierre Mondy) and the criminals, in the 1983 French crime thriller film Le […]

Jun, 05

Weird Science *** (1985, Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 5072

‘It’s all in the name of science. Weird Science.’ Two (now sadly eclipsed) Eighties Brat Pack actors, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith, are the engaging stars of writer-director John Hughes’s wacky 1985 teen comedy […]

Feb, 27

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