Derek Winnert

Jeremy **** (1973, Robby Benson, Glynnis O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 3705

Writer-director Arthur Barron’s 1973 romance teams Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor in this tender, bitter-sweet tale of first-time love. Benson stars as a shy young New York cellist student called Jeremy, who meets and romances upper-class aspiring teenage […]

May, 14 · in Reviews

Our Kind of Traitor ***½ (2016, Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Northam) – Movie Review

Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a weary long-term British couple, Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins, who go on a rekindling romance-type holiday in Marrakech and meet dodgy Russian Dima (Stellan Skarsgård). Dima asks Perry to party with him and challenges him to […]

May, 13 · in Reviews

Money Monster ***½ (2016, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell) – Movie Review

The 2016 American crime thriller film Money Monster is directed by Jodie Foster, and stars George Clooney as a financial TV host and Julia Roberts as his producer, in deep trouble when an irate investor (Jack O’Connell) takes them and their crew hostage. Money […]

May, 13

The Garden **** (1990, Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald, Roger Cook, Spencer Leigh, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Gough, Jack Birkett, Kevin Collins) – Classic Movie Review 3704

The much missed British gay film-maker Derek Jarman contemplates his life and times in the garden of his own bleakly beautiful seaside home in Dungeness, Kent, England, while he dreams of events in the life of […]

May, 12

Garde à Vue [The Inquisitor] **** (1981, Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 3703

Co-writer/ director Claude Miller’s satisfying 1981 French police thriller is neatly done, atmospheric, gripping and very dark. It won four French César Awards in 1982 – Best Actor (Michel Serrault), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Marchand), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Michel […]

May, 12

Under Suspicion **½ (2000, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci, Thomas Jane) – Classic Movie Review 3,702

The intriguing 2000 thriller film Under Suspicion stars Gene Hackman as a smug lawyer suspected of a girl’s murder, who becomes involved in mind games with the investigating police officer (Morgan Freeman). Director Stephen Hopkins’s […]

May, 12

The Ghost and the Darkness *** (1996, Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 3701

The 1996 historical adventure film The Ghost and the Darkness stars Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas, and is a fictional version of the two man-eating lions that terrorised workers at Tsavo, Kenya, during the building […]

May, 12

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