Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Hidaldo ***½ (2004, Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 4164

Viggo Mortensen stars in his first post-Lord of the Rings movie as 1890s real-life Pony Express cowboy courier Frank T Hopkins, who takes his mustang Hidaldo to the Arabian Desert to compete in a big-prize […]

Aug, 13 · in Reviews

Hickey & Boggs ***½ (1972, Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Ta-Ronce Allen, Michael Moriarty, James Woods, Robert Mandan, Vincent Gardenia, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 4163

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, the popular stars from the jokey I Spy TV series that ran from 1965 to 1968, link up again, this time for this neo noir-style, unsettling 1972 private eye thriller, […]

Aug, 13 · in Reviews

She’s Gotta Have It *** (1986, Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4162

Writer-director Spike Lee’s inexpensive first feature, costing only $175,000, takes a vibrant and highly original look at the pros and pitfalls of being a liberated woman. It was shot by director of photography Ernest Dickerson in […]

Aug, 13

Transsiberian **** (2008, Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Eduardo Noriega, Kate Mara, Ben Kingsley, Thomas Kretschmann) – Classic Movie Review 4083

Co-writer/ director Brad Anderson’s thrilling, uber-tense crime mystery drama is set on the Transsiberian express train from China to Moscow, the venue for chase, deception and murder when American couple Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) […]

Aug, 13

Next Stop Wonderland ***½ (1998, Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Holland Taylor, Robert Klein, Cara Buono, José Zúñiga) – Classic Movie Review 4082

The advertising tells you most of what you need to know about co-writer/ director Brad Anderson’s appealing, nicely acted 1998 romantic comedy drama: ‘Dating is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re going […]

Aug, 13

Home to Danger ** (1951, Rona Anderson, Guy Rolfe, Stanley Baker, Francis Lister, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 4081

Director Terence Fisher’s 1951 British thriller is cheap, cheerful and short at only 66 minutes, with a plot about an unknown killer after a young woman called Barbara Cummings (Rona Anderson) who, under a new […]

Aug, 13

Harry and Tonto ****½ (1974, Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman, Arthur Hunnicutt, Josh Mostel, Melanie Mayron, Cliff De Young) – Classic Movie Review 4161

Co-writer/ producer/ director Paul Mazursky provides one of Art Carney’s two roles of a lifetime in this 1974 comedy adventure. Carney deservedly won the 1975 Best Actor Oscar as wise old widower Harry Coombs, a […]

Aug, 12

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