Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Uncategorized

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

Gallivant **** (1997, Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting, Gladys Morris, Benji Ming) – Classic Movie Review 2980

Director Andrew Kotting’s splendidly eccentric feature documentary debut is an amusing, inventive and often moving film about journeys, communication and self-expression in what looks like a riposte to director Patrick Keiller’s documentary London (1994). Kotting, his […]

Oct, 12

Mrs Brown **** (1997, Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Gerard Butler, Richard Pasco, Antony Sher, Finty Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2979

In a majestic stroke of casting, Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly form a brilliant double act as Queen Victoria and John Brown, her loyal Scottish Highland gillie, summoned down from Balmoral to walk the […]

Oct, 12

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