Derek Winnert

My Favorite Year **** (1982, Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna) – Classic Movie Review 5039

The favorite year is 1954, and, in America’s golden age of television, a hard-drinking, dissolute Hollywood matinée idol star, Alan Swann (Peter O’Toole), is slated to appear on a Sid Caesar-style live TV variety show. […]

Feb, 21 · in Reviews

The Slender Thread **** (1965, Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Edward Asner, Dabney Coleman, Paul Newlan) – Classic Movie Review 5037

Director Sydney Pollack’s auspicious 1965 feature film début The Slender Thread stars Sidney Poitier as Alan Newell, a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis centre as a telephone social worker. The film was nominated […]

Feb, 20 · in Reviews

Absence of Malice **** (1981, Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Barry Primus, Josef Sommer) – Classic Movie Review 5036

Sydney Pollack’s complex and satisfying 1981 thriller film Absence of Malice stars Sally Field as a naïve reporter tricked by the FBI into framing a Miami liquor wholesaler (Paul Newman) with a false story. Producer-director […]

Feb, 20

She Hate Me * (2004, Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Ossie Davis, Jamel Debbouze, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, Lonette McKee, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 5035

Fired from his job, Jack Armstrong (played by star Anthony Mackie) gets new work at $10,000 a time making lonely lesbians pregnant. Alas, Spike Lee’s 2004 comedy drama movie is a weird, insulting misfire, wasting […]

Feb, 20

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers **** (2004, Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 4987

Looking nothing like the actor, Geoffrey Rush triumphs over his apparent miscasting as actor and comedian Peter Sellers, in a tour-de-force turn that landed him the 2005 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor […]

Feb, 20

The Interpreter ***½ (2005, Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Earl Cameron, Yves Attal, Hugo Speer, Sydney Pollack) – Classic Movie Review 5034

Director Sydney Pollack conjures up a spirited, good old-fashioned Hitchcock-style mystery suspense thriller, with its serious elements slightly struggling against a twisty plot that is a bit predictable and cheesy. But it is all very […]

Feb, 20

If These Walls Could Talk 2 **** (2000, Vanessa Redgrave, Marian Seldes, Paul Giamatti, Chloë Sevingy, Elizabeth Perkins, Nia Long, Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres) – Classic Movie Review 5033

The follow-up to 1996’s If These Walls Could Talk tells three sincere, affecting and compelling stories of lesbian relationships set in different periods – 1961, 1972 and 2000. Again, the three segments are set in […]

Feb, 20

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