Derek Winnert

The United States of Leland **** (2003, Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Kevin Spacey, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Michelle Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6561

Don Cheadle plays Pearl Madison, a juvenile detention centre jail teacher who probes the mystery of just why the teenage boy Leland (Ryan Gosling) killed his ex-girlfriend’s special needs disabled kid brother. Writer-director Matthew Ryan […]

Jan, 15 · in Reviews

Till the End of Time **** (1946, Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Bill Williams, Robert Mitchum, William Gargan, Tom Tully, Jean Porter) – Classic Movie Review 6560

Director Edward Dmytryk’s realistic, well-made, strongly cast 1946 film drama of post-war readjustment has a theme and plotlines very similar to those in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). That much praised film has tended to […]

Jan, 15 · in Reviews

How to Get Ahead in Advertising ** (1989, Richard E Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 6559

Director Bruce Robinson again casts his Withnail & I (1987) star Richard E Grant, this time as Denis Dimbleby Bagley, an advertising executive who finds a stress-related boil on his neck that metamorphoses into his doppelgänger. […]

Jan, 14

The Mission **** (1986, Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6558

Director Roland Joffé’s religious-minded 1986 British anti-war film stars Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel, a saintly 18th-century Spanish priest, whose Jesuit mission in South America is closed by a papal order. But Robert De Niro also […]

Jan, 14

The Killing Fields **** (1984, Sam Waterston, Haing S Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T Nelson, Bill Paterson) – Classic Movie Review 6557

Director Roland Joffé’s 1984 British anti-war film about the friendship of American New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and his local journalist guide Dith Pran (Haing S Ngor) is both angry and intelligent. […]

Jan, 14

Shirley Valentine **** (1989, Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Hill) – Classic Movie Review 6,556

Pauline Collins was Oscar nominated as Best Actress for the 1989 film version of Willy Russell’s stage show Shirley Valentine and won the Best Actress award at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Evening Standard British […]

Jan, 14

Educating Rita **** (1983, Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6555

Willy Russell’s 1980 Royal Shakespeare Company West End stage comedy proved even more popular on film in 1983 than in the theatre, partly thanks to the engaging interplay between Julie Walters as Rita, a 27- year-old working-class […]

Jan, 13

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