Derek Winnert

Still Crazy **** (1998, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail) – Classic Movie Review 1696

Director Brian Gibson’s 1998 rock comedy is a hilarious, poignant hoot. It is a simple but great idea for a movie, brilliantly carried out, with a delicious screenplay by veteran TV comedy experts Dick Clement and Ian La […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

Admission *** (2013, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Nat Wolff, Lily Tomlin) – Movie Review

Director Paul (About a Boy) Weitz’s niche comedy focuses on a middle-aged woman who’s spent the last 16 years vetting applications from brilliant young aspiring students desperate to get into the elite Princeton uni. Tina […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding *** (2012, Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, James Norton) – Movie Review

It’s England one winter day between the wars and a lovely, posh young woman is about to be married — but something or rather somebody from her past is going to get in the way […]

Sep, 21

Jude *** (1997, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet) – Classic Movie Review 1696

A lugubrious-looking Christopher Eccleston is hugely gloomy in director Michael Winterbottom’s depressingly downbeat 1997 film version of the Thomas Hardy tragic romance yarn Jude the Obscure. Lovestruck stonemason Jude Fawley (Eccleston) pursues his cousin, Sue […]

Sep, 20

Iris **** (2001, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville) – Classic Movie Review 1695

Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent are heartbreaking in co-writer/director Richard Eyre’s sterling 2001 biopic of acclaimed British author Iris Murdoch. The film chronicles her life from her time at Oxford, where she met the love […]

Sep, 20

Hideous Kinky *** (1998, Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui) – Classic Movie Review 1694

Director Gilles MacKinnon’s 1998 drama stars an excellent Kate Winslet, who impresses as Julia, an English hippy mother who in 1972 travels with her two young daughters, 7 and 5, to Morocco. There they have […]

Sep, 20

Hilary and Jackie *** (1998, Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 1693

Director Anand Tucker’s 1998 drama is an impeccably acted, quite imaginatively handled version of the true story of the brilliant British cellist Jacqueline du Pré (Emily Watson) and her devoted musician sister Hilary (Rachel Griffiths). […]

Sep, 20

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