Derek Winnert

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Dinner Rush **** (2000, Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Sandra Bernhard, John Corbett, Mike McGlone, Vivian Wu, Summer Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 4237

Take your places, please, for this delicious, subtle banquet of a meal. The posh venue is Italian restaurant proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa (Danny Aiello)’s New York Italian diner. It’s a big night and the food is […]

Aug, 25

La Grande Bouffe [Blow-Out] ** (1973, Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Andréa Ferréol) – Classic Movie Review 4194

Four burnt-out blokes meet up a villa in the countryside to eat themselves to death in the blow-out of the English title. But first they hire four prostitutes and engage in group sex. One of the […]

Aug, 18

Soylent Green ***** (1973, Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 4041

Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters and Paula Kelly head the strong cast for director Richard Fleischer’s exciting, intelligent and well-crafted 1973 dystopian sci-fi movie Soylent Green. Its story […]

Jul, 18

The Road ***½ (2009, Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Classic Movie Review 3,784

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee give impeccable performances under difficult grungy circumstances as a father and son at the end of the road, in the bleak but distinguished 2009 apocalyptic drama film The Road, based […]

May, 29

Withnail & I **** (1987, Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 2579

Writer-director Bruce Robinson turns his memories of being an out-of-work actor into an art form. Robinson profitably digs into his own memories as a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Francois Truffaut’s The […]

Jun, 10

The Hundred-Foot Journey *** (2014, Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Director Lasse Hallström’s 2014 culture clash foodie movie may be a bit slack, bland and complacent but it is still quite diverting and pretty enjoyable. Its main attraction is that it is starring national treasure Helen […]

Sep, 04

Chef *** (2014, Jon Favreau) – Movie Review

Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars as talented but obstinate chef Carl Casper, who falls out with his restaurant boss (Dustin Hoffman), quits his chef job and starts up selling from a food truck in this […]

Jun, 26

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