Derek Winnert

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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

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

Blast from the Past **** (1999, Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley) – Classic Movie Review 265

Director Hugh Wilson’s enchanting 1999 movie is a charming and delightful romantic comedy about the fallout of true love between two children of the nuclear age. Brendan Fraser stars as an innocent young man called […]

Oct, 01

Austenland ** (2013, Keri Russell, J J Feild, Jennifer Coolidge) – Movie Review

That good and appealing actress Keri Russell draws the short straw and plays an idiot American woman called Jane Hayes, who’s obsessed with Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mr Darcy and Colin Firth in the BBC […]

Sep, 28

Sex and the City **** (2008, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis) – Classic Movie Review 1441

Will Carrie and Big finally tie the knot? That is the Big question behind the 2008 big romantic comedy hit film Sex and the City that grossed $152million in America and £26 million in the […]

Sep, 18

About Time *** (2013, Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Margot Robbie, Tom Hollander) – Movie Review

Domhnall Gleeson stars as a nice middle-class 21-year-old English lad, Tim, who, the night after another bad New Year party at his idyllic family home in Cornwall, is told a big fat, thrilling secret by his […]

Sep, 06

As Good As It Gets ***** (1997, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr, Shirley Knight, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 185

‘How do you write women so well?’ – awed publishers’ receptionist ‘I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.’ – Melvin Udall Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won Best Actor and […]

Aug, 24

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