Derek Winnert

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Happy, Texas **** (1999, Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn, William H Macy, Ally Walker, Illeana Douglas, Ron Perlman) – Classic Movie Review 317

Co-written and directed by Mark Illsley, this ingratiating 1999 comedy drama is both hilarious and skilfully done. It’s a bit naughty, but it’s very nice. There’s delicious comedy playing from the excellent Steve Zahn and Jeremy […]

Oct, 23

Philomena **** (2013, Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Barbara Jefford, Mare Winningham) – Movie Review

Sacked from the BBC News, Martin Sixsmith, a real-life world-weary political journalist is approached at a party by a young woman, who asks him to investigate the story of Philomena Lee, an elderly Irish woman searching for […]

Oct, 14

Gods and Monsters **** (1998, Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 264

Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave finally both won Oscar nominations for their enjoyably extravagant turns in the crowd-pleasing 1998 behind-the-cameras movie Gods and Monsters. Brendan Fraser plays gardener Clayton Boone, a young ex-marine. After 30-odd […]

Oct, 01

Mysterious Skin ***** (2004, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Sage) – Classic Film Review 160

Brady Corbet stars with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the provocative, accomplished 2004 coming-of-age drama film Mysterious Skin as a Kansas teenager who thinks he has seen a UFO and been abducted by aliens. We can trust […]

Aug, 15

Beautiful Thing **** (1996, Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Linda Henry, Meera Syal) – Classic Movie Review 153

A tender love story about gay teenagers coming of age, set on a rough southeast London council estate, this 1996 film is indeed a Beautiful Thing. A working-class south-east London teenage lad, Jamie (Glen Berry), […]

Aug, 11

If . . . ***** (1968, Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Robert Swann) – Classic Movie Review 91

Come the revolution, ‘which side would you be on’? Director Lindsay Anderson’s sabre-rattling story of the repressive life at an English public school in the late Sixties is satisfyingly potent and incisive. Although set in a […]

Jul, 26

Ben-Hur ***** (1959, Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 78

Unfortunately, this incredibly popular and sincere 1959 remake of the 1925 Ramon Novarro silent epic Ben-Hur about the conflict of the Jews and the Romans at the time of Christ just plain hasn’t aged too […]

Jul, 21

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