Derek Winnert

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Cobb **** (1994, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich) – Classic Movie Review 10,204

Tommy Lee Jones scores as baseball’s greatest hitter, the game’s most feared and hated player, in writer-director Ron Shelton’s compelling 1995 sports biopic Cobb, based on the article and book by Al Stump. All-time baseball […]

Aug, 20

The Garment Jungle *** (1957, Lee J Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala) – Classic Movie Review 10,080

Directors Robert Aldrich and Vincent Sherman’s 1957 gritty, realistic, involving film noir crime drama The Garment Jungle is about mobsters and unionisation in New York’s clothing district and the troubles faced by hard-nosed garment factory […]

Jul, 24

At First Sight *** (1998, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) – Classic Movie Review 1619

Producer-director Irwin Winkler’s sweetly sensitive 1998 drama stars Mira Sorvino as city woman Amy Benic, a Manhattan architect who meets and falls for a proud, self-sufficient blind bloke called Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). A massage therapist at a […]

Sep, 01

Pushing Tin *** (1999, John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie) – Classic Movie Review 982

Director Mike Newell’s offbeat 1999 movie features a smartly set-up and unusual story that centres on air traffic controller Nick Falzone (John Cusack)’s life, job and marriage to Connie (Cate Blanchett) falling apart. At first, […]

Mar, 25

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