Derek Winnert

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Agnes Browne ** (1999, Anjelica Huston, Marion O’Dwyer, Niall O’Shea, Ciaran Owens, Ray Winstone, Arno Chevrier) – Classic Movie Review 10,938

Anjelica Huston directs herself in her 1999 comedy drama star vehicle Agnes Browne, with a screenplay by Brendan O’Carroll and John Goldsmith, based on the novel by John Goldsmith. Anjelica Huston must have kissed the […]

Feb, 19

Another Shore ** (1948, Robert Beatty, Moira Lister, Stanley Holloway) – Classic Movie Review 10,344

The 1948 film Another Shore is a minor Ealing Studios comic drama from director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob, A Fish Called Wanda) about a young Dublin dreamer called Gulliver Sheils (Robert Beatty) who […]

Sep, 24

The Van *** (1996, Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly, Ger Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 9663

Director Stephen Frears follows up The Snapper (1993) with his lesser but still enjoyable 1996 film The Van, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel The Van, the third in his Barrytown Trilogy. The film stars Colm […]

Apr, 22

The Snapper **** (1993, Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe) Classic Movie Review 9662

A close-knit Dublin family adjusts to the news that the eldest daughter, 20-year old Sharon Curley, is pregnant but will not name the father, in director Stephen Frears’s 1993 BBC Screen Two film The Snapper. […]

Apr, 22

Animals *** (2019, Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermot Murphy, Amy Molloy) – Movie Review

Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat star in the 2019 comedy drama Animals as Laura and Tyler, wild hedonistic, super-close best friends, who have enjoyed a decade of carefree times in Dublin with endless happy days […]

Aug, 02

A Man of No Importance **** (1994, Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, David Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8,763

Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker and Michael Gambon star in the 1994 comedy drama film A Man of No Importance. Finney plays a closeted gay bus conductor in Dublin in 1963 who puts on Oscar Wilde […]

Jul, 27

The General ** (1998, Brendan Gleeson, Jon Voight, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 3331

Fancy two hours in the obnoxious company of a notorious Irish criminal called Martin Cahill, apparently a legend for his defiance of authority, relentless battle with the police and his weird family relationships? Well, maybe […]

Feb, 06

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