Derek Winnert

A Civil Action **** (1998, John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 5403

Writer-director Steven Zaillian’s excellent 1998 legal drama comes out fighting and wins in a knockout. It stars John Travolta as tenacious plaintiff’s attorney Jan Schlichtmann and Robert Duvall as his canny old opponent, Jerry Facher, the […]

May, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Claim *** (2000, Peter Mullan, Nastassja Kinski, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley, Shirley Henderson) – Classic Movie Review 5402

Director Michael Winterbottom’s ambitious, well-crafted, thoughtful 2000 Western is based on The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce tells the story about a wealthy man who reamins haunted two […]

May, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Apostle **** (1997, Robert Duvall, Todd Allen, Farrah Fawcett) – Classic Movie Review 5401

Writer-director-star Robert Duvall’s 1997 drama is extraordinary, motored by Duvall’s barnstormingly powerful performance as an extremely egotistical religious man, the Texas preacher Euliss ‘Sonny’ Dewey, who sets himself above everything and everybody. His life falls […]

May, 06

The Lords of Discipline ***½ (1983, David Keith, Robert Prosky, G D Spradlin, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 5400

British director Franc Roddam confidently tackles this 1983 American military school drama with a tough surface and a powerful theme: a condemnation of false manly values and of racism at the heart of America’s institutions. […]

May, 06

Tender Mercies **** (1983, Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin) – Classic Movie Review 5,399

The rousing 1983 drama film Tender Mercies swept Robert Duvall to a Best Actor Oscar as the washed-up, alcoholic former country music star Mac Sledge. Director Bruce Beresford’s rousing 1983 drama film Tender Mercies swept Robert Duvall to […]

May, 05

The Great Santini ***½ (1979, Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O’Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky) – Classic Movie Review 5398

The Great Santini has got one of those corny taglines that might actually put people off watching a movie: ‘The bravest thing he would ever do was let his family love him.’ When the tagline […]

May, 05

Horizons West **** (1952, Robert Ryan, Rock Hudson, James Arness, Julie Adams, Raymond Burr, John McIntire, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 5397

‘Buckle up for LAWLESS RUTHLESS DEFIANCE!’ Director Budd Boetticher’s 1952 Western movie Horizons West is a superior item, with both story-telling and film-making on a high level. Robert Ryan and Rock Hudson star as Texan […]

May, 05

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