Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Ae Fond Kiss… **** (2004, Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz) – Classic Movie Review 4215

Romeo and Juliet in Glasgow. Strict Pakistani Scot Casim (Atta Yaqub) is set to marry Jasmine, a cousin he has never met, thanks to the arrangement made by his traditional family. But then it is […]

Aug, 21 · in Reviews

Be Cool *** (2005, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn, Danny DeVito, Christina Milian, Harvey Keitel, Cedric the Entertainer, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 4214

John Travolta is back in 2005 as the smooth operator Chili Palmer from 1995’s hit Get Shorty, who swaps films for the music business and gets mixed up with several different bunches of worryingly crazy […]

Aug, 21 · in Reviews

Boogeyman ** (2005, Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless, Tory Mussett, Charles Mesure) – Classic Movie Review 4213

At 23, Tim (played by star Barry Watson) is still scared of the boogeyman. When he was eight he saw him spirit off his dad into his bedroom cupboard – and he never heard from […]

Aug, 21

Andrei Rublev ***** (1966, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko) – Classic Movie Review 4212

This re-creation of imaginary events in the life of the 15th-century icon painter Andrei Rublev (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) is one of director Andrei Tarkovsky’s movie masterpieces, along with Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Mirror (1975) and The Sacrifice (1986). In the […]

Aug, 21

Nostalgia [Nostalghia] **** (1983, Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson) – Classic Movie Review 4211

Director Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunting and elusive 1983 Soviet-Italian experimental film stars Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Working in Italy in his first film outside Russia, with most of the dialogue in Italian, Tarkovsky co-writes the […]

Aug, 21

Stalker ****½ (1979, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alisa Freyndlikh) – Classic Movie Review 4210

Director-cinematographer Andrei Tarkovsky’s brilliantly cerebral, uniquely disturbing 1979 Russian film tells a tantalisingly oblique and mystifying story about about a Stalker (Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy) who guides two intellectuals through the so-called Zone, a forbidden area of […]

Aug, 21

Solaris [Solyaris] ***½ (1972, Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet) – Classic Movie Review 4209

Esteemed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi epic is intelligent, challenging and visually wonderful, thanks to Mikhail Romadin’s brilliant art direction, but it also seems impenetrable, pretentious and vastly overlong at 167 minutes. The screenplay […]

Aug, 20

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