Derek Winnert

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Cruel Intentions 2 *** (2000, Robin Dunne, Amy Adams, Mimi Rogers, Sarah Thompson, Keri Lynn Pratt) – Classic Movie Review 2585

Writer-director Roger Kumble’s 2000 prequel to his 1999 erotic thriller hit is a shade less good, but it is still provocative, amusing, stylish and properly hard-hearted. Set a few years before the original, it follows […]

Jun, 12

Rigoletto **** (1982, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Luciano Pavarotti) – Classic Movie Review 2541

Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s 1982 film is an enormous, undiluted pleasure for opera lovers. Luciano Pavarotti takes on the Duke of Mantua and Ingvar Wixell the grand title role of the hunchback court jester Rigoletto in the […]

May, 30

State Fair *** (1933, Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers) – Classic Movie Review 2195

Director Henry King’s likeable and appealing 1933 romantic comedy drama provides a pleasantly pungent odour of 30s Americana, based on Philip Strong’s novel, brought to life in vivid star performances. Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers […]

Feb, 21

Casanova ***½ (2005, Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin) – Classic Movie Review 2131

Though hardly the most obvious casting, Aussie boy Heath Ledger is sexy, amusing and likeable as vintage Italian lover Giacomo Casanova in director Lasse Hallström’s lightweight but entertaining 2005 American romantic period romp Casanova, loosely based […]

Jan, 29

The Leading Man *** (1997, Jon Bon Jovi, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 1503

Sexy Jon Bon Jovi is ideally cast in director John Duigan’s 1997 British romantic thriller drama as an arrogant, cocky American film star who arrives in London to do a stage show in the West End […]

Aug, 01

The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354

Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]

Jun, 24

Among Giants *** (1998, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths, James Thornton, Lennie James, Andy Serkis) – Classic Movie Review 1284

Director Sam Miller’s 1998 film is a likeable, moving and highly charged love story based around the strange lives and dangerous passions of a group of pylon painters on the Yorkshire moors. Pete Postlethwaite plays […]

Jun, 02

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