Derek Winnert

Clockwork Mice ** (1995, Ian Hart, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Art Malik, John Alderton, James Bolam) – Classic Movie Review 3788

This 1995 British effort is an old-style heart-warming school drama with Ian Hart as Steve, an idealistic new special needs education teacher at a school for deprived and struggling kids. For a while, Clockwork Mice is enjoyable enough […]

May, 30 · in Reviews

Clockstoppers ** (2002, Jesse Bradford, Michael Biehn, French Stewart, Paula Garcés, Robin Thomas, Julia Sweeney) – Classic Movie Review 3789

Jesse Bradford stars as Zak Gibbs, a science professor’s eager-beaver teenage son who gets hold of a watch that projects the wearer into hyper-time – where he’s moving mega fast and everyone else is almost still. […]

May, 30 · in Uncategorized

Clockwise **** (1986, John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Geoffrey Palmer, Penelope Wilton) – Classic Movie Review 3787

John Cleese is on top manic form as a pompous British headmaster with a punctuality problem and anger management issues, in the funny 1986 British farce Clockwise, with an exceptional Brit cast including Alison Steadman, […]

May, 30

Les Misérables ★★★½ (2012, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne) – Classic Movie Review 3786

  In this brilliantly produced, visually stunning, astonishingly lavish movie of the incredibly long-running stage hit, a hugely impressive Hugh Jackman sings his big Aussie heart out as a saintly French sinner, Jean Valjean, jailed […]

May, 29

The Year of Living Dangerously **** (1982, Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 3785

Director Peter Weir’s 1982 romantic war drama, based on the novel by C J Koch, is an Aussie classic. The Year of Living Dangerously is 1965 and the dangerous place is Indonesia. Mel Gibson stars as Guy Hamilton, an […]

May, 29

Let Me In **** (2010, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins, Dylan Minnette) – Classic Movie Review 3783

Sparks fly when the boy from The Road (2009) meets the girl from Kick-Ass (2010). Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a lonely, dorky 12-year-old boy with a telescope, prying on the neighbours. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Abby, apparently […]

May, 29

The Road ***½ (2009, Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Classic Movie Review 3,784

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee give impeccable performances under difficult grungy circumstances as a father and son at the end of the road, in the bleak but distinguished 2009 apocalyptic drama film The Road, based […]

May, 29

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