Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Oscars"

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Parasite [Gisaengchung] **** (2019, Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park, Ji-so Jung) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or and triple Oscar winner Parasite [Gisaengchung] (2019) is fascinating, provocative and thought provoking in a way that is not normal for a thriller. But then Parasite is […]

Feb, 10

California Suite *** (1978, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Herb Edelman) – Classic Movie Review 4021

Director Herbert Ross’s 1978 comedy California Suite presents four fairly sharp, mostly funny playlets linked only by their setting at the Beverly Hills Hotel, in Los Angeles, and by coming from a stage play by […]

Jul, 14

The Social Network **** (2010, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara, Joseph Mazzello, Josh Pence) – Classic Movie Review 586

Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield star as Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, the sickeningly far-too brainy Harvard duo who start up the social-networking website Facebook together but end up falling out and fighting each other […]

Dec, 28

Chicago ****½ (2002, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 416

Renée Zellweger (as Roxy Hart) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (as Velma Kelly) are sensational, singing and dancing like grand old troupers, as heartless molls on death row, in director Rob Marshall’s red-hot, six Oscar-winning movie of Fred […]

Nov, 17

Life Is Beautiful [La vita è bella] ***** (1997, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Marisa Paredes, Horst Buchholz) – Classic Movie Review 415

This triple-Oscar-winning 1999 Italian movie is a triumph for its mastermind, Roberto Benigni, who walked off with the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as its director. One for each end […]

Nov, 17

Barry Lyndon **** (1975, Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Murray Melvin, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 401

Ryan O’Neal gets by on screen presence and charisma, despite his odd casting as the roguish Irish farm boy turned adventurer, in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 extraordinary labour of love period drama film Barry Lyndon. Stanley […]

Nov, 13

The Deer Hunter ***** (1978, Robert De Niro, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 346

The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]

Nov, 01

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