Derek Winnert

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The Return of a Man Called Horse *** (1976,Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 8373

After the 1970 A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris’s 19th-century English gentleman John Morgan, known as Horse, comes back to the American West and undergoes the sun-vow ritual again for the sake of trying to […]

Apr, 17

Maniac Cop 2 *** (1990, Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner) – Classic Movie Review 8300

Director William Lustig’s and writer Larry Cohen’s 1990 Maniac Cop 2 is a cheaper-looking and even more exploitative-seeming sequel to their 1988 horror thriller Maniac Cop, with a welter of violence and bad black humour […]

Mar, 26

House II: The Second Story ** (1987, Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano) – Classic Movie Review 8142

There is too much slapdash comedy in director Ethan Wiley’s 1987 House II: The Second Story, the even dafter yet still popular haunted mansion horror-thriller sequel to the 1986 hit House. It motors on a […]

Feb, 18

The Lego Movie 2 *** (2019, voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade) – Movie Review 

Director Mike Mitchell’s 2019 animated action adventure The Lego Movie 2 is a bright, lively, fast moving and amusing enough sequel to the 2014 hit The Lego Movie. It is totally good natured and amiable, though there […]

Feb, 02

Mary Poppins Returns ** (2018, Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters) – Movie Review

So it turns out that Mary Poppins can turn back time, and that’s what Disney can do too in this out-of-its-time sequel to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins Returns is, as the title implies, supposed to […]

Jan, 10

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ** (2018, Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

The second installment of J K Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series set in the Wizarding World again stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander. Redmayne’s shambling, mumbling performance is dull, but not as dull as the movie, which […]

Nov, 17

Aparajito ***** (1956, Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Karuna Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kamala Adhikari) – Classic Movie Review 7739

Writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s 1956 Indian masterpiece Aparajito [The Unvanquished] is the wonderfully touching middle episode in Ray’s majestic epic family drama the Apu trilogy, which takes the saga from the hero’s infancy of Pather Panchali […]

Nov, 02

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