Derek Winnert

Four Weddings and a Funeral ***** (1994, Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charlotte Coleman) – Classic Movie Review 370

‘Love means never having to say I do.’ – Ad line. Directed by Mike Newell and written by Richard Curtis in 1994, this sensational British romantic comedy was a worldwide hit and the first British […]

Nov, 06 · in Reviews

Love Actually *** (2003, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 369

The British Prime Minister romancing his Downing Street tea lady? Yes actually! Clever writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings) looks – with great affection and optimism – at the state of love in Britain in 2003, […]

Nov, 06 · in Reviews

Seduced and Abandoned – Film Review

Alec Baldwin goes to the Cannes Film festival, surprisingly for the very first time, along with the maverick film director James Toback, and they go on a hilarious quest for financing for their next feature film, a preposterous […]

Nov, 05

Get Shorty **** (1995, John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, David Paymer, Bette Midler) – Classic Movie Review 368

Gene Hackman has a scene-stealing field day as sleazeball Hollywood producer Harry Zimm, in the highly amusing 1995 black comedy thriller film Get Shorty. Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s highly amusing 1995 black comedy thriller film Get […]

Nov, 05

Troy ***** (2004, Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleason, Diane Kruger, Peter O’Toole, Julie Christie, Sean Bean, Garrett Hedlund) – Classic Movie Review 367

Troy boy Brad Pitt dons a cute mini-skirt as Greek rebel hero Achilles, who leads the attack on Troy under the banner of bad royal Agamemnon (Brian Cox), king of the Mycenaeans. Wolfgang Petersen’s 2004 […]

Nov, 05

How to Survive a Plague – Film Review

Silence = Death. David France’s 2012 Oscar-nominated Best Documentary tells the story of two late-1980s New York gay activist coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — who wouldn’t shut up till America took […]

Nov, 05

Love Tomorrow – Film Review

Cindy Jourdain stars as Eva, a troubled ex-ballet dancer who meets Oriel (Arionel Vargas) a handsome Cuban dancer in London when he follows her out of the Tube system at Camden Town. He’s insistent, but she’s […]

Nov, 05

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