Derek Winnert

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Everybody Wants Some!! **** (2016, Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman) – Movie Review

Blake Jenner stars as freshman Jake who joins a group of daft college baseball players enjoying the good life in the couple of days before term begins in Richard Linklater’s 1980-set college comedy. Linklater may be old now […]

May, 14

The Cure **** (1995, Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid) – Classic Movie Review 3517

Director Peter Horton’s poignant 1995 drama is an outstanding little gem. Brad Renfro stars as loner Erik who finds a little older and much bigger best friend in his next door neighbour Dexter (Joseph Mazzello), an 11-year-old […]

Apr, 03

The Hi-Lo Country *** (1998, Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 3397

Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup give impressive performances in British director Stephen Frears’s brave, gritty, 1998 Western, set in the mid-20th century. They play World War Two veterans, Big Boy Matson and Pete Calder, who return […]

Feb, 21

Son of Rambow **** (2007, Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jessica Stevenson, Eric Sykes, Anna Wing) – Classic Movie Review 3283

Wild laughter and goofy nostalgia are on the tasty menu for this superlative little action adventure comedy movie about misspent youth from writer-director Garth Jennings, who also filmed The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Back […]

Jan, 19

The Lincoln Lawyer **** (2011, Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, Josh Lucas, John Leguizamo, Michael Peña, Bob Gunton, Frances Fisher, Bryan Cranston) – Classic Movie Review 3270

Working from the back of his Lincoln car with the registration plate NTGUILTY, Mick Haller (Matthew McConaughey) is a hotshot lawyer who makes the mistake of taking on the case Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), a […]

Jan, 16

Brother Sun, Sister Moon [Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna] *** (1972, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Alec Guinness, Peter Firth) – Classic Movie Review 2966

Director Franco Zeffirelli originally conceived his 1972 biopic of St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) back in the mid-Sixties and it is that decade’s idealistic, love-and-peace, love-as-all-you-need flavour that is stamped all over this hippyish youth-slanted […]

Oct, 07

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

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