Derek Winnert

Big Night **** (1995, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 1692

  Co-writer/co-director/star Stanley Tucci’s flavourful 1995 labour-of-love food movie comedy is a civilised pleasure to watch. Tucci and Tony Shalhoub star as Secondo and Primo, the Italian Pilaggi brothers, who open a restaurant in 50s […]

Sep, 20 · in Reviews

The Impostors *** (1998, Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 1691

Writer-star-director Stanley Tucci’s freewheeling 1998 old-style slapstick comedy is engagingly silly, fast-moving entertainment. Tucci and Oliver Platt do a Laurel and Hardy double act as Arthur and Maurice, out-of-work actors on the run – from just […]

Sep, 20 · in Reviews

The Woodsman *** (2004, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Mos Def) – Classic Movie Review 1689

Co-writer/director Nicole Kassell’s 2004 film is a disturbing, well-meaning, if not entirely convincing portrayal of the troubled life of a paedophile (Kevin Bacon) trying to stay straight after coming out of jail where he’s spent […]

Sep, 20

Funny Bones **** (1995, Lee Evans, Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, Leslie Caron, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Reed, Ian McNeice) – Movie Review 1690

Genius is at large in co-writer/director Peter Chelsom’s extraordinary and ambitious if erratic and over-long 1995 British comedy. The sporadically hilarious Brit comic Lee Evans is brilliant in this very odd, disorganised and rambling movie […]

Sep, 20

The Woodlanders *** (1997, Emily Woof, Rufus Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 1688

With Ashley Rowe’s cinematography so atmospheric, you can just smell the English countryside. Director Phil Agland’s 1997 film is a meticulously realised but dark, dour and depressing adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel. It is distinguished […]

Sep, 20

Wonderland *** (2003, Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas) – Classic Movie Review 1687

In an excellent tour-de-force, Val Kilmer continues his bid to restore his reputation in co-writer/director James Cox’s wild, extreme 2003 movie about a real Hollywood murder. It focuses on the 70s porn movie superstar John […]

Sep, 19

Kate and Leopold *** (2002, Hugh Jackman, Meg Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 1686

Co-writer/director James Mangold’s 2002 romantic comedy pairs Hugh Jackman and Meg Ryan, poignantly he on the way up, and she on the way down. The 19th-century nobleman Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (Hugh Jackman) is […]

Sep, 19

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