Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Love Letter **** (1999, Kate Capshaw, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck, Gloria Stuart, Ellen DeGeneres, Blythe Danner, Geraldine McEwan) – Classic Movie Review 4569

In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly by the Sea, well-preserved, middle-aged, local store-owner Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw) finds a mysterious love letter hidden in her sofa, and it makes her open to romance, […]

Oct, 31 · in Reviews

Portrait of Jennie **** (1948, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, David Wayne, Albert Sharpe, Henry Hull, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 4568

Director William Dieterle’s mysterious and enjoyable 1948 romance tells an engagingly peculiar story. It stars Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones as the destitute, unsuccessful Depression era artist Eben Adams (Cotten) who meets the ghostly, eerily […]

Oct, 30 · in Reviews

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing *** (1955, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 4567

Director Henry King’s 1955 movie is just the very kind of film they don’t make any more – a plush, lovely looking, well-meaning, impressively crafted escapist movie about a tearful romance between the gorgeous Eurasian […]

Oct, 30

Christine *** (1983, Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford, Roberts Blossom, Kelly Preston) – Classic Movie Review 4566

Stephen King’s ‘Herbie Goes Homicidal’ story about a 1957 red Plymouth Fury car called Christine revs onto the screen in 1983 in the more than capable hands of director John Carpenter. Now, 21 years after it […]

Oct, 30

Cujo *** (1983, Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Ed Lauter, Christopher Stone) – Classic Movie Review 4565

Stephen King’s shaggy dog story about a nice 200lb St Bernard dog, who turns bat-bitten rabid killer and mounts a reign of terror on an American small town, is filmed by director Lewis Teague in […]

Oct, 29

The Jewel of the Nile ** (1985, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) – Classic Movie Review 4564

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito re-assemble for director Lewis Teague’s entertaining but less sparkling 1985 adventure sequel to Romancing the Stone. Turner again plays Joan Wilder, the dizzy lady novelist back in trouble […]

Oct, 29

The War of the Roses **** (1989, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin) – Classic Movie Review 4563

Director Danny DeVito’s exuberant 1989 black farcical comedy, in which marriage turns out to be a bed of thorns for Mr Oliver and Mrs Barbara Rose, reunites the three stars of Romancing the Stone – […]

Oct, 29

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