Derek Winnert

Fargo ***** (1996, William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 220

A homespun murder story. The Coen brothers Joel and Ethan are on their best, most exhilarating form in this corking real-life-derived 1996 thriller. It won a Best Actress Oscar for Frances McDormand as the nice, […]

Sep, 04 · in Reviews

Angel Heart ***** (1987, Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling) – Classic Film Review 219

Perfectly cast as Harry R Angel, a sweaty, seedy, careworn hard-boiled 1950s New York private investigator, Mickey Rourke gives the best performance of his long and varied and variable career. His mesmerising, first-rate turn is […]

Sep, 04 · in Reviews

Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain] ***** (2001, Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus) – Classic Movie Review 218

The devastatingly skilled, appealingly gamine Audrey Tautou melts all hearts in the vivacious, quite adorable 2001 French romantic comedy charmer film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The devastatingly skilled, appealingly gamine Audrey Tautou melts all hearts in this […]

Sep, 04

Donnie Brasco **** (1997, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek) – Classic Movie Review 217

This 1997 real-life gangster movie is a scintillating, epic look at the New York Mafia in 1978, based by screenwriter Paul Attanasio on a true-story book by Joseph D Pistone and Richard Woodley. An ideally […]

Sep, 03

The Graduate ***** (1967, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross) – Classic Movie Review 216

‘Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?’ And here’s to you, Mrs Robinson! At her most stylish and beautiful, a sensational Anne Bancroft enjoys her most famous […]

Sep, 03

Blazing Saddles ***** (1974, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, John Hillerman, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 215

Anything goes in Mel Brooks’s hilarious 1974 Western spoof comedy classic film Blazing Saddles. Anything goes in Mel Brooks’s hilarious 1974 Western spoof comedy classic film Blazing Saddles. The residents of the little Western town […]

Sep, 03

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ***** (1983, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher) – Classic Film Review 214

With a three-year gap after Irvin Kershner’s 1980 The Empire Strikes Back, co-writer/producer George Lucas delivers the third and final part of his original Star Wars trilogy. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi […]

Sep, 02

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