Derek Winnert

Nightwatch * (1997, Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Patricia Arquette, Brad Dourif, Josh Brolin, Lonny Chapman, Lauren Graham, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 3036

Writer-director Ole Bornedal’s 1997 thriller stars Ewan McGregor as the nightwatchman at a scary morgue in a town where somebody’s killing women and mutilating their bodies. McGregor is law student Martin Bells, who takes the […]

Nov, 07 · in Uncategorized

Eye of the Beholder ** (1999, Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, k d lang, Genevieve Bujold, Patrick Bergin, Jason Priestley) – Classic Movie Review 3035

Writer/director Stephan Elliott’s 1999 film Eye of the Beholder stars Ewan McGregor, whose fans are in for another disappointment (after Nora) in this mystery thriller tale of a British secret agent in America, who spies […]

Nov, 07 · in Uncategorized

Easy Virtue **** (2008, Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kris Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 3034

Co-writer/director Stephan Elliott’s delightful and highly amusing 2008 adaptation of gay playwright Noël Coward’s witty early play stars Ben Barnes and Colin Firth, who were reunited in 2009’s Dorian Gray. This time, they are father […]

Nov, 06

Dorian Gray **** (2009, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Douglas Henshall, Emilia Fox, Max Irons) – Classic Movie Review 3,033

Ben Barnes is perfect as the hedonistic, corrupt young Dorian Gray in director Ol Parker’s smart, sensual and well-tuned 2009 film of Oscar Wilde’s only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Looking and sounding just […]

Nov, 06

Now Is Good **½ (2012, Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Cole, Josef Altin) – Movie Review

Smart but sickly romance, with Dakota Fanning as Tessa Scott, a girl with leukaemia who compiles a list of things she’d like to do before dying, including losing her virginity. Fortunately, along comes that handy […]

Nov, 06

A Christmas Star *½ (2015, Rob James-Collier, Erin Galway-Kendrick, Bronagh Waugh, Richard Clements, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

Richard Elson’s 2015 family film is a slice of good natured seasonal Irish blarney, in which Erin Galway-Kendrick stars as young Noelle, who believes she has the gift to perform miracles. She was born under the […]

Nov, 06

Kill Your Friends **½ (2015, Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, Georgia King, James Corden, Jim Piddock) – Movie Review

Director Owen Harris’s British pitch-dark comedy crime-thriller film overall must be judged a missed opportunity and a misfire. But it comes out firing on all barrels and certainly has its attractions and laughs. Alas, there are […]

Nov, 05

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