Derek Winnert

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I’m Not There **** (2007, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Bruce Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 3288

After nearly five decades of recording music, singer songwriter Bob Dylan has reinvented himself numerous times, metamorphosing from folk troubadour to protest singer to electric rocker to born again Christian and beyond. Yet for all […]

Jan, 22

The Four Feathers ***½ (2002, Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 2851

Young Aussie star Heath Ledger (aged 23) cuts a convincing and stylish dash as English gentleman Harry Faversham in director Shekhar Kapur’s lusty 2002 epic movie version of The Four Feathers by A E W […]

Aug, 26

Casanova ***½ (2005, Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin) – Classic Movie Review 2131

Though hardly the most obvious casting, Aussie boy Heath Ledger is sexy, amusing and likeable as vintage Italian lover Giacomo Casanova in director Lasse Hallström’s lightweight but entertaining 2005 American romantic period romp Casanova, loosely based […]

Jan, 29

The Order [The Sin Eater] ** (2003, Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Fürmann, Peter Weller) – Classic Movie Review 2127

Heath Ledger comes a cropper as Catholic priest Father Alex Bernier dispatched to the Vatican to probe the death of head of his arcane order of priests known as Carolingians. He tracks the mysterious circumstances […]

Jan, 29

The Brothers Grimm **½ (2005, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 1611

The grim news in that director Terry Gilliam’s 2005 movie is not a fairy tale success, though Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are extremely game and likeable as the real-life tall story-telling brothers, Will and […]

Aug, 30

Lords of Dogtown *** (2005, Heath Ledger, Emil Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano) – Classic Movie Review 1493

Heath Ledger seems to doing a bad Val Kilmer impression as youth guru-like Skip Engblom, co-proprietor of the Zephyr beach sports shop in Venice, California, during the 1970s, in writer Stacy Peralta’s dramatisation of his […]

Jul, 30

Network ***** (1976, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight) – Classic Movie Review 1,191

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1976 four-Oscar-winner film Network has proved a highly regarded, lasting classic, an American satirical black comedy-drama gem. It has a great script and even greater acting. Network became only the second film to win three of the […]

May, 09

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