Derek Winnert

Cuban Fury – Film Review

Nick Frost stars as Bruce Garrett, a former salsa prodigy whose career was ruined by a freakish bullying incident at the age of 13. Now, 22 years later, Bruce is tubby and unloved. But the arrival of Julia […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

The Patrol **** (2013, Nav Sidhu, Ben Righton, Owain Arthur, Daniel Fraser, Alex McNally) – Movie Review

Tom Petch’s gripping and intelligent 2013 British war action drama film The Patrol is set in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2006, and looks at the Afghan conflict through the eyes of dazed and scared British […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

I Shot Andy Warhol **** (1996, Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton, Tahnee Welch, Myriam Cyr, Stephen Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 820

Co-writer/director Mary Harron tells the thoughtful and provocative true story of how the dangerously unbalanced Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) ingratiated herself into Andy Warhol’s weird circle of artists and intellectuals, freaks and fakes, and then, […]

Feb, 09

Being John Malkovich **** (1999, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 818

Director Spike Jonze’s wonderfully odd, brilliantly clever, dazzlingly inventive fantasy comedy happily finds John Cusack on his best form. And there’s also the inestimable benefit of John Malkovich (as himself) gamely and brilliantly sending himself […]

Feb, 09

Being There ***** (1979, Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart) – Classic Movie Review 819

Director Hal Ashby’s extremely witty and deliciously satirical 1979 black-comedy gives Peter Sellers a wonderful chance to create a serious character in his penultimate film as an illiterate, TV-mad (‘I like to watch’), simple gardener […]

Feb, 09

The Prophecy ****½ (1995, Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Viggo Mortensen, Eric Stoltz) – Classic Movie Review 817

Christopher Walken is on dazzling form here in 1995 as the angel Gabriel, who comes down to Earth to find a human soul that will end the stalemate of the second war of Heaven. But he’s not […]

Feb, 09

Basquiat *** (1996, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Wright, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Wincott, Courtney Love, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 816

Artist Julian Schnabel’s 1996 portrait of the New York art scene of the 80s and Jean-Michel Basquiat in particular, who in 1981 is propelled from an unknown 19-year-old graffiti writer into a rich and much-courted famous […]

Feb, 09

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