Derek Winnert

The Sacrifice [Offret] ***** (1986, Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter) – Classic Movie Review 1715

Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1986 final masterwork stars Erland Josephson, who plays Alexander, an increasingly reclusive former actor, journalist and philosopher who has shunned fame and turned away from the vanities of society. It won four awards […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

Sliding Doors **** (1998, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, Jeanne Tripplehorn, John Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 1714

  Gwyneth Paltrow finds that fate can be sealed as fast as a pair of sliding doors and there are two sides to every story. She’s going to live both of them! Writer-director Peter Howitt’s […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

Possession ** (2002, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 1,713

Neil LaBute’s 2002 romantic mystery drama film Possession stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart, and is based on the 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel by British author A S Byatt. Co-writer/ director Neil LaBute’s 2002 romantic mystery drama […]

Sep, 27

View from the Top ** (2003, Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mike Myers, Kelly Preston) – Classic Movie Review 1712

Director Bruno Barreto’s 2003 comedy drama comes from Gwyneth Paltrow’s post-Oscar era when she was valiantly trying to extend her range. This took her into some odd and uncomfortable places, and this is one of […]

Sep, 27

Sylvia ** (2003, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 1711

Director Christine Jeffs’s 2003 film examines the painful, depressingly sad true story of married poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, with all the little and large events of their troubled lives unfortunately underlined with horribly […]

Sep, 27

Up, Close and Personal *** (1996, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 1710

An A Star Is Born-style romantic drama is transferred to American local TV, where Michelle Pfeiffer is a bright and shiny young and ambitious worker, helped in her career by brisk and crinkly veteran newsman boss, […]

Sep, 27

Gone Girl ***** (2014, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Carrie Coon) – Movie Review

Director David Fincher’s excellent, super-edgy thriller is continually engrossing and surprising. Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, the husband who comes home to find his wife is missing, Rosamund Pike as the troubled wife and Kim Dickens as […]

Sep, 27

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