Derek Winnert

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Mumford (1999, Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee) – Classic Film Review 1115

Producer-writer-director Lawrence Kasdan‘s pleasant enough 1999 film stars Loren Dean as a man who assumes a false identity as a psychologist called Dr Mickey Mumford and uses his intuitive skills to help the neurotic residents of a […]

Apr, 19

K-Pax 2001 (Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges) – Classic Film Review 1107

Director Iain Softley’s 2001 film stars Kevin Spacey, who is ideal as Prot, a mysterious, other-worldly patient in a New York psychiatric hospital who claims to be an alien from the planet K-Pax. What’s odder […]

Apr, 18

Don Juan DeMarco **** (1994, Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 909

‘There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the […]

Mar, 13

The English Patient **** (1996, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth) – Classic Movie Review 736

Writer-director Anthony Mingella’s stunning-looking 1996 David Lean-style epic is an unabashed tugger at the heartstrings set at the end of World War Two. Star Ralph Fiennes gives a lofty and aloof performance, leading with his […]

Jan, 23

Eyes Wide Shut **** (1999, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack) – Classic Movie Review 269

It’s 1999, and, when the screen’s then most famous married couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, teams up with one of the great film directors – Stanley Kubrick – you expect sparks to fly or […]

Oct, 05

The Sixth Sense ***** (1999, Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment) – Classic Movie Review 131

‘I see dead people’ – Cole Sear. Bruce Willis gives one of his best ever performances in this captivating, chilling and unique 1999 suspense thriller with a unique take, a brilliantly stylish way of going […]

Aug, 06

Spellbound ***** (1945, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G Carroll, Michael Chekhov, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 101

‘This is love! Complete…reckless…violent,’ screams the poster as Alfred Hitchcock embarks in 1945 on another delicious tale of obsession and trauma. Spellbound scored six Oscar nominations and won one, for Best Music, Scoring of a […]

Jul, 28

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