Derek Winnert

Mr Jones ** (1993, Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Delroy Lindo) – Classic Movie Review 2,813

Richard Gere stars as the bipolar Mr Jones, in director Mike Figgis’s maddening, but well made and often convincingly handled 1993 romantic drama film. Richard Gere stars as the Mr Jones of the title in […]

Aug, 15 · in Reviews

Fly Away Home **** (1996, Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, Dana Delany) – Classic Movie Review 2812

Director Carroll Ballard’s delightful 1996 children’s adventure film is based on the autobiography of Bill Lishman. A 13-year-old girl’s mother dies in a car crash in New Zealand and the lass called Amy Alden (Anna […]

Aug, 14 · in Uncategorized

The Squid and the Whale **** (2005, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney) – Classic Movie Review 2811

Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline star as two brothers forced to deal with the divorce of their parents Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney in Brooklyn in the 1980s in writer-director Noah Baumbach‘s poignant and amusing bitter-sweet […]

Aug, 14

The House of Mirth **** (2000, Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Laura Linney, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 2,810

Gillian Anderson gives a knockout performance as the romantic but eventually tragic Lily Bart, in British director Terence Davies’s exquisite 2000 film adaptation of the early-20th-century-set novel by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. One […]

Aug, 14

Mistress America *** (2015, Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Seth Barrish) – Movie Review

Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s bitter-sweet comedy stars Lola Kirke as Tracy, a lonely college freshman at Barnard University, whose New York way of life is turned upside down by her impetuously adventurous soon-to-be stepsister Brooke (Greta Gerwig) […]

Aug, 14

Absolutely Anything * (2015, Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, voice of Robin Williams) – Movie Review

Absolutely Anything… except laughs. Well, to be fair, there are a couple of chuckles in co-writer/director Terry Jones‘s struggling sci-fi comedy, a lesser variant of Bruce Almighty. It plays like an update on a cosy Fifties […]

Aug, 13

The Object of Beauty *** (1991, John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Joss Ackland, Lolita Davidovich, Bill Paterson, Peter Riegert, Jack Shepherd) – Classic Movie Review 2804

Writer-director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s chic, smart and sophisticated 1991 romantic comedy drama stars John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell as a more or less completely broke American couple who nevertheless live in style and luxury in a posh […]

Aug, 13

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