Derek Winnert

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Trapped *** (2002, Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend) – Classic Movie Review 1754

Director Luis Mandoki’s 2002 thriller stars Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love and Pruitt Taylor Vince as Hickey, Cheryl and Marvin, scumbag lowlifes who make an unhealthy living kidnapping kids for the ransom money. But they meet […]

Oct, 08

The Woodlanders *** (1997, Emily Woof, Rufus Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 1688

With Ashley Rowe’s cinematography so atmospheric, you can just smell the English countryside. Director Phil Agland’s 1997 film is a meticulously realised but dark, dour and depressing adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel. It is distinguished […]

Sep, 20

The Grand Seduction ** (2013, Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson, Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent) – Movie Review

Twee, old-fashioned but good-natured comedy in which a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince handsome young doctor Taylor Kitsch to take up residence by any means necessary. Tickle Cove needs a doctor so the town can land […]

Sep, 05

Patch Adams *** (1998, Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel London, Harold Gould) – Classic Movie Review 1541

Director Tom Shadyac’s 1998 film is a good-hearted if sugary sweet, true-life-derived comedy drama, in which an ideally cast Robin Williams plays Hunter Patch Adams, an offbeat medical student in the 70s who illegally treats […]

Aug, 12

Malice *** (1993, Bill Pullman, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 1509

Director Harold Becker’s 1993 thriller is a compulsively preposterous, bizarre and artificial suspense mystery movie, in which Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman star as New England college dean Andy and his lovely younger wife Tracy, Andy’s former pupil who […]

Aug, 02

Garden State *** (2004, Zach Braff, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman) – Classic Movie Review 1498

Writer-director Zach Braff’s appealingly offbeat 2004 comedy is a clear labour of love. Braff also stars quietly troubled young drug-taking LA TV actor Andrew ‘Large’ Largeman, who returns  home to the Garden State for his mother’s […]

Jul, 30

Before and After *** (Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, Edward Furlong) – Classic Movie Review 1468

Director Barbet Schroeder’s 1996 fast-paced dramatic thriller stars Liam Neeson as a well-respected American father who fights with his wife (Meryl Streep) and daughter (Julia Weldon) when their teenage son, New England boy Jacob (Edward Furlong), […]

Jul, 25

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