Derek Winnert

The Boxtrolls **** (2014, voices Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost) – Movie Review

Cute and deliciously quirky animation in which Eggs (voice of Isaac Hempstead Wright), a young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors, tries to save his friends from the evil exterminator Archibald Snatcher. It remains winsome and […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

Pride **** (2014, Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, George MacKay) – Movie Review

Pride is a sweet, funny and vital film, successfully making a popular comedy drama entertainment out of a deadly serious subject as British gay activists work to help the miners during their lengthy strike in the summer of […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

A Most Wanted Man *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review

In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]

Sep, 11

I Heart Huckabees *** (2004, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Wahlberg) – Classic Movie Review 1,661

David O Russell’s clever and imaginative 2004 existential comedy I Heart Huckabees stars Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin as detectives hired to investigate the meaning of the life of clients Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts.  Jason Schwartzman […]

Sep, 11

Dance Hall **** (1950, Donald Houston, Bonar Colleano, Petula Clark, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 1660

The music of Ted Heath and Geraldo and their bands helps to bring plenty of Fifties atmosphere and retro chic to director Charles Crichton’s underrated 1950 Ealing Studios episodic comedy romantic drama Dance Hall about four […]

Sep, 10

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday *** (1996, Michelle Pfeiffer, Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes) – Classic Movie Review 1659

  Director Michael Pressman’s 1996 tearjerking emotional drama is based on the play by Michael Brady, with a script by co-producer David E Kelley. Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Gillian Lewis, beloved wife of David (Peter […]

Sep, 09

Crime and Punishment in Suburbia **** (2000, Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin, Michael Ironside, Vincent Kartheiser) – Classic Movie Review 1658

  Director Rob Schmidt’s 2000 thriller is a sizzling, disturbing but ultimately life-enhancing American teen movie version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment – hey, don’t switch off just yet! – with Monica Keena as […]

Sep, 09

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