Derek Winnert

True Crime ** (1995, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 5812

Writer-director Pat Verducci’s 1995 low budget film is a savage and deeply unpleasant thriller on a very familiar theme. Alicia Silverstone stars as bright Catholic school teenager Mary Giordano, a high school senior who is hooked on […]

Jul, 25 · in Reviews

True Confessions **** (1981, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 5811

Director Ulu Grosbard’s fully-fleshed-out, stimulating and intelligent 1981 thriller is adapted from John Gregory Dunne’s novel about a Forties detective bent on solving the brutal murder case of a young prostitute, in a trail that […]

Jul, 25 · in Reviews

The Merry Widow ** (1952, Fernando Lamas, Lana Turner, Richard Haydn, Una Merkel, Thomas Gomez, John Abbott, Marcel Dalio, King Donovan, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5810

Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]

Jul, 24

The Merry Widow **** (1925, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy, Tully Marshall, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett, Edward Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 5809

Co-writer/ director Erich von Stroheim 1925 silent MGM version of the famous Franz Lehar operetta Die Lustige Witwe is hugely successful and was a huge success. The wayward maverick director encourages Mae Murray’s classiest performance […]

Jul, 24

Head On **** (1998, Alex Dimitriades, Paul Capsis, Julian Garner, Elena Mandalis) – Classic Movie Review 5,808

The powerful and engaging 1998 Australian rites-of-passage movie Head On stars Alex Dimitriades as confused young outsider Ari, a repressed Aussie gay man of Greek descent living in inner city Melbourne. The well done, powerful, […]

Jul, 24

Loverboy ** (1989, Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher, Robert Ginty, Nancy Valen, Barbara Carrera, Dylan Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 5807

Director Joan Micklin Silver’s 1989 romantic comedy stars the fresh young Patrick Dempsey as rebellious college slacker turned pizza delivery boy Randy Bodek (!), who woos mature, frustrated Beverly Hills ladies, in this slow-delivering sitcom, slightly […]

Jul, 24

Heart ** (1999, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Hardie, Rhys Ifans, Anna Chancellor, Matthew Rhys) – Classic Movie Review 5806

Director Charles McDougall’s 1999 British psychological thriller is twisty and nasty, though not entirely unenjoyable. It has a good setup but a surprisingly cheesy and shaky script considering that it is written by such an […]

Jul, 23

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