Derek Winnert

A Simple Twist of Fate *** (1994, Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 2151

Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1994 film of George Eliot’s classic novel Silas Marner comes with a screenplay by its star Steve Martin, who gives it a modern twist. Martin adapts and comes up with a semi-amusing […]

Feb, 03 · in Reviews

Radio Days **** (1987, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 2150

Writer-director Woody Allen’s episodic 1987 movie is a loving tribute to the radio heydays of the 40s is one of his best, most relaxed and winsome films. The film looks back on one American family’s life […]

Feb, 03 · in Reviews

Waxworks [Das Wachsfigurenkabinett] ***** (1924, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss) – Classic Movie Review 2149

Stuttgart-born film pioneer Paul Leni’s 1924 German Expressionist feast focuses on a young poet and writer (William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of gothic stories for Harun al-Rashid […]

Feb, 02

Another Country **** (1984, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Anna Massey, Rupert Wainwright, Betsy Brantley, Cary Elwes) – Classic Movie Review 2.148

Playwright/ screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning 1981 London West End theatre hit gay stage play Another Country happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. […]

Feb, 02

Resurrection Man ** (1998, Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, John Hannah, James Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 2146

Director Marc Evans’s 1998 thriller is an extremely nasty-toned, alienating melodrama, set in 1975 Belfast. It opens a can of worms with its barrel-load of violence and clichés and pours them liberally over the familiar […]

Feb, 02

Trojan Eddie ** (1996, Stephen Rea, Richard Harris, Stuart Townsend, Aislín McGuckin) – Classic Movie Review 2147

Dour and tedious slice of life set in an Irish small-town, where an ex-con called Trojan Eddie (Stephen Rea) lands himself in trouble when he sets up on his own and clashes with a Mr […]

Feb, 02

About Adam **½ (2000, Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Frances O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 2145

Writer-director Gerard Stembridge’s weird, larky little Dublin-set 2000 romantic comedy boasts lots of good acting and quite a few laughs at the witty lines. Stuart Townsend stars as handsome, smiling philanderer Adam who catches the eye of […]

Feb, 02

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