Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Pledge **** (2001, Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Aaron Eckhart, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael O’Keefe, Mickey Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 4362

Jack Nicholson gives his best display of serious acting for years as Jerry Black, a Nevada police chief on the brink of retirement, who pledges to the mother that he will find the killer of […]

Sep, 13 · in Uncategorized

The Forsaken *** (2001, Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko, Johnathon Schaech, Simon Rex, Carrie Snodgress) – Classic Movie Review 4361

Writer-director J S Cardone’s pacy, realistic, edge-of-seat but plenty gory 2001 horror movie stars the right young cast in Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko and Johnathon Schaech. A perfectly cast Schaech plays a bloodsucker who roams America’s desert […]

Sep, 13 · in Uncategorized

My House in Umbria *** (2003, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Benno Fürmann, Emmy Clarke, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall, Libero De Rienzo) – Classic Movie Review 4360

Maggie Smith stars as romantic novelist Mrs Delahunty, who invites her fellow survivors of a terrorist train blast to convalesce in her Italian villa: the old British General (Ronnie Barker), the young German man Werner (Benno Fürmann) and […]

Sep, 13

Birth **** (2004, Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston, Arliss Howard, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 4359

Young widow Anna (Nicole Kidman) is about to marry her fiancé Joseph (Danny Huston), 10 years after her first husband Sean (Michael Desautels) died of a heart attack. A ten-year-old boy turns up in her swanky New […]

Sep, 13

Coffee and Cigarettes *** (2003, Bill Murray, Alfred Molina, Steve Coogan, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright) – Classic Movie Review 4358

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s series of 12 yarns, linked by coffee and cigarettes, has cult hit written all over it. Some of the tales are dull misfires, alas – perhaps too many of them – but […]

Sep, 13

Inside I’m Dancing [Rory O’Shea Was Here] **** (2004, James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Movie Review 4357

Director Damien O’Donnell’s funny, life-affirming and heart breaking 2004 movie tale of friendship between two disabled young men is the best Brit film in ages. Rebel Rory O’Shea (James McAvoy) arrives at a drab Dublin residential […]

Sep, 13

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story **½ (2004, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Christine Taylor, Gary Cole) – Classic Movie Review 4356

To save his gym from foreclosure, Vince Vaughn arranges for his gang of gym buddy misfits to fight Ben Stiller’s team for a $50,000 prize at a Las Vegas game of dodgeball. There are as […]

Sep, 13

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