Derek Winnert

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Fire at Sea [Fuocoammare] *** (2016, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo, Maria Costa, Mattias Cucina) – Movie Review

Writer-cinematographer-director Gianfranco Rosi captures life and death on the Italian Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which finds itself on the frontline in the European migrant crisis. Rosi won the 2016 Golden Berlin Bear award for his heart-on-sleeve documentary, highlighting […]

Jun, 12

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad ***½ (1973, John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 3520

‘Sinbad battles the creatures of legend in the miracle of Dynarama!’ ‘Dynarama means supreme adventure!’ Director Gordon Hessler’s 1973 British adventure movie does what it says on the posters and is exotic, colourful, fast-moving and fun. […]

Apr, 03

In the Heart of the Sea ** (2015, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Tom Holland, Benjamin Walker) – Movie Review

‘The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.’ Ben Whishaw plays the author Herman Melville, who in the 1850s turns up at the home of Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who […]

Dec, 16

Doctor in Trouble * (1970, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Harry Secombe, Angela Scoular, Irene Handl, Robert Morley, Simon Dee, Freddie Jones, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 3144

‘Laughs a Minute on the High Seas!’ Alas, Doctor in Trouble is right. Leslie Phillips is back as Dr Tony Burke, who is in love with Ophelia O’Brien (Angela Scoular), who promptly leaves for a […]

Dec, 09

San Demetrio London **** (1943, Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Charles Victor, Frederick Piper, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 2827

Ealing Studio’s director Charles Frend brings a vibrant documentary-style realism to his 1943 film account of the salvaging by its surviving crew of the abandoned blazing British merchant ship San Demetrio, torpedoed while in convoy […]

Aug, 18

Doctor at Sea *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham, Joan Sims, Brenda de Banzie, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 2690

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1955 British comedy is the welcome second Doctor adventure, more farcical than the first one, Doctor in the House (1954). Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow, this time leaving St Swithin’s […]

Jul, 11

Song of the Sea *** (2014, voices of Lucy O’Connell, David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, Lisa Hannigan) – Movie Review

Director Tomm Moore delivers a sweet, warm and appealing animated treat, fascinatingly mixing Irish folk yarns like The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles 1994) with beautiful visuals in the design style of Japanese works like […]

Jul, 09

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