Derek Winnert

Short Cuts ***** (1993, Andie MacDowell, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 2123

Writer-director Robert Altman’s masterly 1993 take on Los Angeles, re-created from nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver, is an ambitious and extraordinary creation. The meeting of two American cult masters is fully the momentous movie occasion […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

Son of a Gun **** (2014, Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander) – Movie Review

Debut feature writer-director Julius Avery’s nerve-jangling Aussie prison drama, then gold heist thriller is an action crime caper with attitude and a commendably tough tone. Filmed on fresh, atmospheric Aussie locations, t’s all it should be – tense, […]

Jan, 28 · in Reviews

The Player ***** (1992, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 2,122

Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry The Player is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the […]

Jan, 27

Best ** (2000, John Lynch, Ian Bannen, Jerome Flynn, Ian Hart) – Classic Movie Review 2121

Writing with director Mary McGuckian, actor John Lynch realises a long-cherished ambition to tell the life story of former Manchester United football legend, George Best – ‘I spent a lot of money on booze, birds […]

Jan, 26

To Kill a King *** (2003, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams, Rupert Everett, James Bolam, Corin Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2120

Tim Roth has a field day as historical film baddie Oliver Cromwell in this tale of the fall of King Charles I (Rupert Everett) at the end of the English Civil War in 1645. It […]

Jan, 26

Waking the Dead *** (2000, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Janet McTear, Molly Parker, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 2119

Billy Crudup stars as a 1970s aspiring politician, congressional candidate Fielding Pierce, who begins to lose his grip on reality when visions of his first love, Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) — who died nine years earlier — begin […]

Jan, 26

Waking Ned Devine *** (1998, Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, James Nesbitt, Susan Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 2118

Writer-director Kirk Jones’s whimsical 1998 Irish comedy is funny and has charm to spare. Lottery fever grips the small Irish village of Tullymore, when it’s found someone there holds a jackpot-wining ticket. There’s one small […]

Jan, 26

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