Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Man on the Moon **** (1999, Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Gerry Becker) – Classic Movie Review 4914

Director Milos Forman’s distinguished 1999 comedy drama stars Jim Carrey in one of his best roles and finest films. Carrey won the 2000 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – […]

Jan, 21 · in Reviews

The Majestic *** (2001, Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Matt Damon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden) – Classic Movie Review 4913

Director Frank Darabont’s honourable 2001 drama stars Jim Carrey as Peter Appleton, an ambitious movie screenwriter in early 1950s America, who falls victim to the communist witch-hunts. He crashes his car, loses his memory and […]

Jan, 21 · in Reviews

Despicable Me 2 *** (2013, voices of Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Elsie Fisher, Dana Gaier, Kristen Wiig, Ken Jeong, Benjamin Bratt, Steve Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 4912

Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s cheery and likeable 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy sequel to Despicable Me (2010) is more of the exactly same pleasing stuff without achieving its often inspired touch of greatness. It is […]

Jan, 21

Split *** (2016, James McAvoy, Betty Buckley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula) – Movie Review

James McAvoy luxuriates in his huge star role(s) as a split-personality mental patient with no less than 24 identifiable separate personalities, who kidnaps, imprisons and torments three understandably terrified girls (Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, […]

Jan, 20

Rogue Male ***½ (1976, Peter O’Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Cyd Hayman, Harold Pinter) – Classic Movie Review 4911

Peter O’Toole is ideally cast and gives a powerful performance as Captain Robert Thorndike, the resourceful, upper-class Englishman who sets out to shoot Adolf Hitler early in 1939. O’Toole gives a strong boost to director Clive Donner’s […]

Jan, 20

T2 Trainspotting **** (2017, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, Anjela Nedyalkova) – Movie Review

Two decades on from Trainspotting (1996), the 46-year-old Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns from a new life in Amsterdam to the one place he can call home, Edinburgh, where he is reunited with Spud (Ewen Bremner), […]

Jan, 20

Jackie *** (2016, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Richard E Grant) – Movie Review

Natalie Portman was nominated for a Golden Globe and Bafta award as Best Actress playing – carefully and well – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who is interviewed by a Journalist (Billy Crudup) soon after the assassination […]

Jan, 20

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