Derek Winnert

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel *** (2015, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Richard Gere, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench) – Movie Review

In an entertaining odd-couple double act, Dev Patel and Maggie Smith have the best of what’s going in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as their characters Sonny Kapoor and Muriel Donnelly pursue their expansionist dreams […]

Feb, 25

Million Dollar Arm *** (2014, John Hamm, Lake Bell, Alan Arkin) – Movie Review

John Hamm stars as down-on-his-luck American sports agent JB Bernstein, who stages an unconventional career-reviving scheme after watching images Susan Boyle singing I Had a Dream in her viral video performance and Indian cricketers in quick succession […]

Aug, 28

Gandhi ***** (1982, Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Mills, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson) – Classic Movie Review 1488

Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s stirring 1982 film Gandhi was a triumph, scooping eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Attenborough and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley’s unforgettable performance as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948). John […]

Jul, 28

Carry On Up the Khyber **** (1968, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Roy Castle, Terry Scott, Angela Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1134

The 16th Carry On film from 1968 Carry On Up the Khyber is easily one of the finest, delivering a hilarious quota of great fun as the team take to India in the 1890s and […]

Apr, 22

Alexander ** (2004, Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Val Kilmer) – Bad Movie 3

Fortune normally favours the bold, maybe, but not here. Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 2004 classical adventure epic is certainly brave and ambitious but it is also turgid and laughable. An absurdly miscast Colin Farrell is too […]

Mar, 23

Life of Pi ***** (2012, Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu) – Classic Movie Review 280

‘I had to tame him’, Pi realizes. ‘It was not a question of him or me, but of him and me. We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.’ Boasting astounding cinematography, marvellous production […]

Oct, 09

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