Derek Winnert

A Mighty Wind *** (2003, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer) – Classic Movie Review 1636

Another amusing ‘mockumentary’ from Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, who gave us the hysterical This Is Spinal Tap back in 1984. This time in 2003 they’re sending up the folk music scene, starring […]

Sep, 06 · in Reviews

Down by Law ***** (1986, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni) – Classic Movie Review 1635

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 noirish dark comedy is a brilliant major cult movie, still as fresh as the day it was made. It’s dazzlingly filmed in glorious eye-catching monochrome images on striking down-at-heel Louisiana locations […]

Sep, 05 · in Reviews

Local Hero **** (1983, Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 1634

Writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1983 vintage-style Scottish comedy is an irresistible throwback to the era and movies of the Forties and Fifties and, in particular, the similarly themed classic Whisky Galore (1949). Peter Riegert stars as Mac, […]

Sep, 05

The Grand Seduction ** (2013, Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson, Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent) – Movie Review

Twee, old-fashioned but good-natured comedy in which a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince handsome young doctor Taylor Kitsch to take up residence by any means necessary. Tickle Cove needs a doctor so the town can land […]

Sep, 05

Whisky Galore! ***** (1949, Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson) Classic Movie Review 1633

Director Alexander Mackendrick’s brilliant and deservedly fondly remembered 1949 Ealing Studios comedy about the alcohol-deprived folks on a Scottish Outer Hebrides island called Todday in World War Two faced with the temptation of a ship’s […]

Sep, 05

Life of Crime *** (2013, Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Mos Def) – Movie Review

Crafty Detroit common criminals Louis Gara (John Hawkes) and Ordell Robbie (Mos Def) get more than they bargain for when they kidnap Mickey Dawson (Jennifer Aniston), the wife of corrupt real-estate developer Frank Dawson (Tim […]

Sep, 05

As Above, So Below ** (2014, Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, François Civil) – Movie Review

Perdita Weeks stars as a Lara Croft-style English posh lady tomb raider, who leads a team of explorers into the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. What lies beneath in the ancient drains isn’t exactly what she […]

Sep, 05

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