Derek Winnert

Monty Python’s Life of Brian ***** (1979, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2,983

Director Terry Jones’s daring 1979 Monty Python movie Monty Python’s Life of Brian is a controversial triumph and probably sees the Pythons at their peak. This inspired and iconic religious spoof is of course again […]

Oct, 16 · in Reviews

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ***** (1975, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2982

Directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones’s inspired and iconic 1975 Monty Python movie is their hilarious, nonsense version of the Arthurian legend. It is of course written by and stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, […]

Oct, 16 · in Uncategorized

Carol **** (2015, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler) – Movie Review

Todd Haynes revisits, sort of, the scene of his 2002 triumph, Far from Heaven, by filming Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian love story Carol. Haynes casts Cate Blanchett, one of the stars of his last movie I’m […]

Oct, 15

The Program *** (2015, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Chris O’Dowd, Dustin Hoffman) – Movie Review

Ben Foster is good as cyclist Lance Armstrong, who never stops cycling – or lying, apparently. ‘I have never tested positive’, he says positively as he categorically denies drug-taking over and over again. Foster is […]

Oct, 15

By Our Selves *** (2015, Andrew Kotting, Toby Jones, Freddie Jones, Eden Kotting, Alan Moore) – Movie Review

Director Andrew Kotting investigates the life and thoughts of the poet John Clare in this typically eccentric and engaging documentary that carries on his profitable obsession with road trips. Remember how it started with Gallivant […]

Oct, 15

The Lady in the Van ***½ (2015, Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Deborah Findlay, Frances de la Tour, David Calder, Gwen Taylor, Jim Broadbent) – Movie Review

Maggie Smith is brilliant re-creating her stage role as Miss Shepherd, the transient derelict lady who parks up her van in Alan Bennett’s Camden front drive for 15 years, in the 2015 film The Lady […]

Oct, 15

The ‘Burbs *** (1989, Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman) – Classic Movie Review 2981

Director Joe Dante’s entertaining, quietly frenzied 1989 comedy stars the funny and charming young Tom Hanks, who shows his consummate comedy skills as down-to-earth, if overstressed suburbanite Ray Peterson. His peaceful existence is shattered when he joins […]

Oct, 12

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