Derek Winnert

Brooklyn **** (2015, Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters) – Movie Review

Saoirse Ronan stars as Ellis, a bright young Irish immigrant who arrives in 1950s Brooklyn. She hoves up at old Mrs Julie Walters’s boarding house, gets a department store job and, though initially homesick, soon […]

Nov, 05 · in Uncategorized

The Devils **** (1971, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3032

Vanessa Redgrave stars in Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) as a sexually repressed hunchback nun so obsessed with a priest (Oliver Reed) that she accuses him of witchcraft and says he has possessed her.  Writer-producer-director […]

Nov, 03 · in Reviews

Holes **** (2003, Shia LaBoeuf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Winkler, Dulé Hill, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 3031

Director Andrew Davis’s 2003 Disney drama stars Shia LaBoeuf as a wrongfully convicted boy thief called Stanley, who is sent to a brutal young offenders’ detention camp, where the warden (Sigourney Weaver), the deputy by […]

Nov, 03

Disturbia *** (2007, Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer, Aaron Yoo) – Classic Movie Review 3030

Shia LaBeouf stars as a teenager living under house arrest who becomes convinced his creepy neighbour (David Morse) is a serial killer in director D J Caruso’s involving and suspenseful Rear Window-style thriller. Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) […]

Nov, 03

Life Stinks *** (1991, Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin) – Classic Movie Review 3028

Mel Brooks plays a billionaire who takes a bet with a rival property developer that he can’t live as a penniless tramp on the streets of LA for a month. It turns out to be […]

Nov, 02

Down with Love ** (2003, Ewan McGregor, Renée Zellweger, Tony Randall, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Poulson) – Classic Move Review 3029

Director Peyton Reed’s 2003 retro soufflé movie tries to pair Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger as a romantic team, with mixed, mostly disappointing results. McGregor and Zellweger try to make a stylish Sixties-type romantic comedy but […]

Nov, 02

Life or Something Like It ** (2002, Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, James Gammon, Melissa Errico, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 3027

Director Stephen Herek’s 2002 romantic comedy drama is a plush, well-acted but largely dreary heart-tugger, in which Angelina Jolie plays Seattle TV news reporter Lanie Kerrigan who interviews a psychic homeless man (Tony Shalhoub) about […]

Nov, 02

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