Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Uncategorized

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

Melinda and Melinda *** (2004, Will Ferrell, Vinessa Shaw, Radha Mitchell, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Sevigny, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wallace Shawn, Zak Orth, Amanda Peet) – Classic Movie Review 4355

Writer-director Woody Allen’s witty 2004 movie has writers arguing at dinner how they would tell a tale. So sad divorcée Melinda (Radha Mitchell) gatecrashes a party, and then the yarn is played for serious and also […]

Sep, 13

Assault on Precinct 13 ***** (1976, Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer) – Classic Movie Review 4,354

The nailbiting 1976 non-stop action thriller film Assault on Precinct 13 about a gang of delinquents besieging a strangely empty Los Angeles police station deservedly helped to catapult its writer-director John Carpenter into the big […]

Sep, 12

Assault on Precinct 13 ***½ (2005, Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Ja Rule, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo) – Classic Movie Review 4353

Ethan Hawke again proves he can play a tough cop as Sgt Jake Roenick, the useful hero of the brilliantly tense 2005 action thriller film remake Assault on Precinct 13. After Training Day (2001), Ethan […]

Sep, 12

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