Derek Winnert

Forces of Nature ** (1999, Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney) – Classic Movie Review 2055

Director Bronwen Hughes’s 1999 romcom stars Sandra Bullock as a daffy aircraft passenger who is grounded in New York by a plane crash and joins exciting co-passenger Ben Affleck on an endlessly fraught trains-planes-automobiles trip to Georgia. […]

Jan, 08 · in Uncategorized

Dance with a Stranger **** (1985, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 2054

Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett are superb in director Mike Newell’s powerful, moving and subtle 1985 movie account of the tragic story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain hanged for murder back in […]

Jan, 08 · in Uncategorized

Big Hero 6 **** (2014, voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T J Miller) – Movie Review

This spectacular 2014 comedy-adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios (Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph) is cute, funny and charming. It’s the first animated Marvel film to be released in cinemas via Walt Disney Animation Studios. Under the direction […]

Jan, 07

Bonobo ***½ (2014, James Norton, Tessa Peake-Jones, Eleanor Wyld, Josie Lawrence) – Movie Review

Tessa Peake-Jones stars as uptight divorced middle-aged mum Judith, who finds that her daughter Lily (Eleanor Wyld) has quit law school to move into a commune of hippie misfits who live according to the behavioural […]

Jan, 07

Eastern Boys **** (2013, Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov) – Movie Review

Tense and twisty but realistic and raunchy, this is an excellent French gay thriller from writer-director Robin Campillo. Olivier Rabourdin stars as Daniel Muller, a discreet gay man in his late fifties who has his eye […]

Jan, 07

Erebus: Into the Unknown *** (2014) – Movie Review

Director Charlotte Purdy’s powerful and compelling documentary tells the true story of the New Zealand cops who tackled the aftermath of one of the world’s worst ever aviation disasters. On 28 November 28 1979, a jet with […]

Jan, 07

Wild **** (2014, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann) – Movie Review

Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed, who undertakes a 1,100-mile solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail to try to recover from her recent catastrophes. In flashbacks, she seems to have gone to pieces in an orgy of […]

Jan, 07

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