Derek Winnert

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood ** (2004, Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Linda Cardellini) – Classic Movie Review 3795

Martin Short stars as obese TV host and culture critic Jiminy Glick, who gets tied up in a murder case at the Toronto Film Festival, in director Vadim Jean’s relatively amusing Canadian comedy, a soft parody of the […]

Jun, 03 · in Reviews

Breaking the Bank * (2016, Kelsey Grammer, Tamsin Greig, John Michael Higgins) – Movie Review

Something has gone wrong – well, quite a few things – with Vadim Jean’s well-meaning, good-hearted Britcom, reuniting him with Kelsey Grammer, the star of his 1998 comedy The Real Howard Spitz. Warm and appealing TV […]

Jun, 03 · in Reviews

One More Kiss *** (1999, Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler, James Cosmo, Valerie Gogan) – Classic Movie Review 3794

Valerie Edmond stars as Sarah Hopson who swaps her meaningless New York lifestyle for the Scottish Borders to look for her childhood sweetheart Sam (Gerard Butler), who now runs a restaurant. Sam’s life collapsed the day Sarah left but now she’s […]

Jun, 03

The Measure of a Man [La loi du marché ] **** (2015, Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller) – Movie Review

The Measure of a Man [La loi du marché ] is a marvellous movie, a perfect study of a good, decent man laid low by circumstance, abused by almost everyone he meets. It’s hard to […]

Jun, 03

Embrace of the Serpent [El abrazo de la serpiente] **** (2015, Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis) – Movie Review

This enthralling, spectacular looking historical adventure from Colombian director and writer Ciro Guerra (born 1981) is a fascinating contradiction. It is at once both chilly and emotional. It is poetical and political. It is both easily accessible […]

Jun, 03

The Conjuring 2 *** (2016, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Franka Potente, Frances O’Connor, Simon McBurney, Madison Wolfe) – Movie Review

Original director James Wan and writers Carey and Chad Hayes try to freshen the formula by a visit to the UK in this very reasonably exciting sequel to the 2013 hit The Conjuring. Actually, they have pulled off The […]

Jun, 02

Indignation **** (2016, Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Linda Emond, Tracy Letts) – Movie Review

Logan Lerman is brilliant as young, clever and idealistic Marcus Messner, a Jewish butcher’s son from New Jersey, who leaves the family home and joins a small Ohio college in 1951, and meets trouble and strife. Oh and a […]

Jun, 02

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