Derek Winnert

The Left Handed Gun ***½ (1958, Paul Newman, Lita Milan, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon, James Best, John Dehner, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 6413

Gore Vidal’s 1955 American TV play The Death of Billy the Kid starred Paul Newman, and he re-creates his role as Henry McCarty (23 November 1859 – 14 July 1881), who called himself William H […]

Dec, 15 · in Reviews

The Last Time I Saw Paris **½ (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Roger Moore, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor) – Classic Movie Review 6412

F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 semi-autobiographical short story of Americans in Paris, Babylon Revisited, makes a loose starting point basis for an interesting though shaky 1954 movie under Richard Brooks’s direction. Its setting is shifted from […]

Dec, 15 · in Reviews

The Last Supper *** (1995, Cameron Diaz, Courtney B Vance, Charles Durning, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish, Bill Paxton) – Classic Movie Review 6411

Director Stacy Title’s edgy and awkward 1995 political black comedy thriller stars Cameron Diaz, Courtney B Vance, Charles Durning, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish and Bill Paxton. The screenplay is by Dan Rosen, in which a […]

Dec, 15

The Return of the Soldier ***½ (1982, Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret, Ian Holm, Frank Finlay, Jeremy Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 6410

Director Alan Bridges makes a smooth and satisfying 1982 British film from Rebecca West’s romantic drama novel, first published in 1918. It reunites the stars of Far from the Madding Crowd in an affecting, old-style […]

Dec, 15

Tin Men *** (1987, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6409

Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito enjoy themselves as battling tin sellers in the early Sixties in one of writer-director Barry Levinson’s ambitious semi-autobiographical Baltimore comedies made in 1987 between Diner (1982) and Avalon (1990). BB […]

Dec, 14

Avalon *** (1990, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Kevin Pollak) – Classic Movie Review 6408

Writer-director Barry Levinson’s 50-year saga of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in Baltimore is warmly acted by a strong cast, looks superb thanks to cinematographer Allen Daviau and is quite involving and entertaining. It was nominated […]

Dec, 14

Darkest Hour ** (2017, Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane) – Movie Review

For playing British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright’s 2017 movie Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman won the Oscar as Best Actor, Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – […]

Dec, 14

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