Derek Winnert

The Wolf of Wall Street ***** (2013, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) – Movie Review

Leonardo DiCaprio won the 2014 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Now that’s odd. I didn’t realise […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

Pride & Prejudice **** (2005, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander, Judi Dench, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Simon Woods) – Classic Movie Review 706

Keira Knightley makes a lovely job of her posh role as Elizabeth Bennet, proud heroine of this first movie of Jane Austen’s classic since the Hollywood Pride and Prejudice in 1940 with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

One Hour Photo **** (2002, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 704

Writer-director Mark Romanek’s eerie, flesh-tingling 2002 thriller is a first rate tension ride. It is, exactly as it was intended, uniquely disturbing and deeply unsettling. After Insomnia, Robin Williams gives another brilliant non-comedy performance as a […]

Jan, 15

Source Code *** (2011, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright) – Classic Movie Review 703

Jake Gyllenhaal makes every second count as Colter Stevens, a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and finds he’s in a sci-fi spin on Groundhog Day. He has eight minutes […]

Jan, 15

Thelma and Louise ***** (1991, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald) – Classic Movie Review 702

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon enjoy roles to die for as female buddies Thelma and Louise in director Ridley Scott’s rousing 1991 film, advertised as the first feminist, buddy-buddy road-movie. A weekend break from the […]

Jan, 15

Bringing Out the Dead **** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 701

Director Martin Scorsese returns in 1999 memorably and stylishly to the smoky New York mean streets he explored so famously in Taxi Driver, with a screenplay by that film’s writer Paul Schrader, based on the […]

Jan, 15

Kundun – Classic Film Review 700

Master director Martin Scorsese delivers a glorious looking, exquisitely crafted biography of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political leader. The story runs from 1937 when he was a two-year-old boy through the horrific Chinese […]

Jan, 15

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