Derek Winnert

Pain & Gain **** (2013, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie) – Movie Review

Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie star as three ambitious but dim Miami bodybuilders just living the American dream in the nineties – kidnapping, torture, extortion, murder and hacking up of body parts. Goodfellas […]

Aug, 13 · in Reviews

Amour ***** (2012, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert) – Movie Review

Munich-born writer-director Michael Haneke’s film about a married couple in their eighties desperately trying to cope when a stroke suddenly hits the wife one day at breakfast, leaving her speechless and partly paralysed, is a […]

Aug, 13 · in Reviews

About a Boy ****½ (2002, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz) – Classic Movie Review 155

The 2002 comedy About a Boy is an endearing, delightful, often hilarious movie, with a cute plot, a witty, quirky script, the smoothest of performances and polished handling by directors Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, […]

Aug, 12

Marnie ***** (1964, Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Diane Baker) – Classic Movie Review 154

It is easy to relish the charismatic characters of arch manipulator and lying thief, brilliantly played by the stylish star duo of Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren, in Alfred Hitchcock’s dark 1964 romantic thriller film […]

Aug, 12

Beautiful Thing **** (1996, Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Linda Henry, Meera Syal) – Classic Movie Review 153

A tender love story about gay teenagers coming of age, set on a rough southeast London council estate, this 1996 film is indeed a Beautiful Thing. A working-class south-east London teenage lad, Jamie (Glen Berry), […]

Aug, 11

Muriel’s Wedding **** (1994, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 152

Romcom heaven! P J Hogan’s 1994 movie is a glorious Aussie feel-good romantic comedy drama along the lines of the Ugly Duckling story, in which of course she turns into a beautiful and happy swan. […]

Aug, 11

Monster’s Ball **** (2001, Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, Mos Def, Amber Rules) – Classic Movie Review 151

A troubled African American woman (Halle Berry) has a dangerous affair with a prejudiced white man (Billy Bob Thornton) in America’s Deep South in director Marc Foster’s posh, classy, complex 2001 romantic drama that tackles the […]

Aug, 11

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