Derek Winnert

Casanova ***½ (2005, Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin) – Classic Movie Review 2131

Though hardly the most obvious casting, Aussie boy Heath Ledger is sexy, amusing and likeable as vintage Italian lover Giacomo Casanova in director Lasse Hallström’s lightweight but entertaining 2005 American romantic period romp Casanova, loosely based […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

Casanova ***** (1976, Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2130

Director Federico Fellini’s exuberant 1976 masterwork is an amazing-looking, awesome movie, in which an unexpectedly but perfectly cast Donald Sutherland astonishes as the forehead-shaved, bewigged, foppish 18th-century Venetian rake, Giacomo Casanova. What’s on screen is […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

Swimfan **½ (2002, Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby) – Classic Movie Review 2129

You can’t help being attracted to director John Poulson’s 2002 crazy stalker thriller as a glossy though fatally flawed teen swimmer version of Fatal Attraction or Play Misty for Me. It stars Jesse Bradford as […]

Jan, 29

Double Impact *** (1991, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alonna Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 2128

Director Sheldon Lettich’s passably impactful 1991 action thriller provides Jean-Claude Van Dammes with twin roles, which proved so popular that he repeated the formula over and over. Van Damme plays twins separated on the death of their parents. […]

Jan, 29

The Order [The Sin Eater] ** (2003, Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Fürmann, Peter Weller) – Classic Movie Review 2127

Heath Ledger comes a cropper as Catholic priest Father Alex Bernier dispatched to the Vatican to probe the death of head of his arcane order of priests known as Carolingians. He tracks the mysterious circumstances […]

Jan, 29

The Order *** (2001, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sofia Milos, Charlton Heston) – Classic Movie Review 2126

Director Sheldon Lettich’s 2001 action thriller stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Rudy Cafmeyer, who travels to the Holy Land, determined to track down his missing archaeologist father Oscar (Vernon Dobtcheff). Based on a screenplay co-written […]

Jan, 29

Alive and Kicking **** (1996, Jason Flemyng, Antony Sher, Dorothy Tutin, Bill Nighy, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 2125

Director Nancy Meckler’s excellent 1996 British dance drama and gay-themed movie, offers Jason Flemyng the chance to have a field day as a gay, bitchy, promiscuous, essentially lonely HIV-positive dancer who suddenly and quite unexpectedly […]

Jan, 28

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