Derek Winnert

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ***** (2018, Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Saul Rubinek, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Jonjo O’Neill, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]

Oct, 12 · in Reviews

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead *** (2018, Neil Maskell, Sam Riley, Bill Paterson, Charles Dance, Joe Cole) – Movie Review

Writer-director Ben Wheatley’s semi-improvised ensemble comedy drama Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) is dark and sour, with a bunch of really horrible loser characters, but it is undeniably funny in places in its black comedy […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

Club Paradise *** (1986, Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis) – Classic Movie Review 7662

Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy and Adolph Caesar are in the tasty star line-up for director Harold Ramis’s 1986 comedy Club Paradise about a Chicago firefighter called Jack Monike (Williams) who […]

Oct, 11

On the Riviera *** (1951, Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio, Jean Murat) – Classic Movie Review 7661

Director Walter Lang’s 1951 Technicolor musical comedy On the Riviera is a fine and dandy vehicle for Danny Kaye, who has fun in two parts as Jack Martin, an American song and dance man adept at […]

Oct, 11

Colette ** (2018, Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Eleanor Tomlinson, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pugh) – Movie Review

Keira Knightley stars in director Wash Westmoreland’s Colette (2018) as French rural country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, who marries the older Willy (Dominic West). They move from the countryside to Paris and he gets her to […]

Oct, 11

Widows ** (2018, Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Erivo) – Movie Review

Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]

Oct, 10

Silverado *** (1985, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, John Cleese, Rosanna Arquette, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt, Jeff Fahey) – Classic Movie Review 7660

Lawrence Kasdan, fresh from Body Heat and The Big Chill, co-writes, produces and directs the 1985 Silverado, a visually resplendent movie telling a well-plotted Western tale about four drifters – Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott […]

Oct, 10

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