Derek Winnert

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Madagascar Skin ***½ (1995, Bernard Hill, John Hannah, Mark Anthony, Mark Pettitt, Danny Earl) – Classic Movie Review 4367

Madagascar Skin tells a dark, teasing tale of two very different men – played by John Hannah and Bernard Hill as you have never seen them before. Meeting on a bleak and barren coast, the […]

Sep, 15

An American in Paris ***** (1951, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch, Georges Guétary) – Classic Movie Review 2515

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 dance movie An American in Paris was a triumph for him and Gene Kelly, as well as Leslie Caron. Half a dozen Oscars, including Best Picture, poured down on this breath-taking MGM musical, […]

May, 24

Woman in Gold ***½ (2015, Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review

Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds make a good, enjoyable double act as octogenarian Jewish refugee Maria Altmann and her talented young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, who take on the Austrian government to recover the artwork she believes rightfully belongs […]

Apr, 08

Mona Lisa Smile *** (2003, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 2329

Director Mike Newell’s 2003 drama stars Julia Roberts, who flashes her big smile as Katherine Ann Watson, a free-spirited art professor at a posh, conservative Fifties American school, Wellesley College. As a free-thinking teacher, she is frustrated […]

Mar, 29

The Rebel [Call Me Genius] *** (1960, Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 2107

Director Robert Day’s 1960 comedy for the Associated British Picture Corporation is certainly Tony Hancock’s finest hour in the movies, the better of his two star vehicles made at the height of his extraordinary fame, before […]

Jan, 24

Six Degrees of Separation **** (1993, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Will Smith, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 2099

Stockard Channing as Ouisa Kittredge: ‘I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people… I also find it like Chinese water torture that we’re so close, because you have […]

Jan, 23

Equilibrium *** (2002, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs) – Classic Movie Review 1554

Writer-director Kurt Wimmer’s intriguing futuristic 2002 thriller is set in a fascist future, where the state has suppressed human emotions by banning books, art and music and punishing feelings by death. Christian Bale stars as cleric John […]

Aug, 16

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