Derek Winnert

The Keeping Room ***½ (2014, Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Muna Otaru, Sam Worthington, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review

Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru deliver exceptional performances in this fresh-seeming, women-led take on the classic Western written by Julia Hart and directed in Romania by Daniel Barber, the director of Harry Brown (2009). A trio […]

Sep, 14 · in Uncategorized

Blue Skies ***½ (1946, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield) – Classic Movie Review 4365

Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby both pursue Joan Caulfield in Paramount’s likeable, if run-of-the-mill 1946 Technicolor backstage musical Blue Skies, lifted up high by 22 Irving Berlin songs. Everyone who loves vintage musicals will be in […]

Sep, 14 · in Reviews

Lost Souls ** (2001, Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt, Philip Baker Hall and Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 4364

We know we must be in trouble in 2001 if the world’s fate scarily rests on the tiny narrow shoulders of Winona Ryder, who battles with her baffling miscasting as a religious fanatic convinced that a […]

Sep, 13

Starsky & Hutch *** (2004, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Fred Williamson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Jason Bateman, Amy Smart) – Classic Movie Review 4363

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are perfectly cast as 1975 cops Starsky and Hutch in director Todd Phillips’s jolly 2004 crime caper that wittily captures the old TV show’s wacky style and crazy haircuts. Stiller […]

Sep, 13

The Pledge **** (2001, Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Aaron Eckhart, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael O’Keefe, Mickey Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 4362

Jack Nicholson gives his best display of serious acting for years as Jerry Black, a Nevada police chief on the brink of retirement, who pledges to the mother that he will find the killer of […]

Sep, 13

The Forsaken *** (2001, Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko, Johnathon Schaech, Simon Rex, Carrie Snodgress) – Classic Movie Review 4361

Writer-director J S Cardone’s pacy, realistic, edge-of-seat but plenty gory 2001 horror movie stars the right young cast in Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko and Johnathon Schaech. A perfectly cast Schaech plays a bloodsucker who roams America’s desert […]

Sep, 13

My House in Umbria *** (2003, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Benno Fürmann, Emmy Clarke, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall, Libero De Rienzo) – Classic Movie Review 4360

Maggie Smith stars as romantic novelist Mrs Delahunty, who invites her fellow survivors of a terrorist train blast to convalesce in her Italian villa: the old British General (Ronnie Barker), the young German man Werner (Benno Fürmann) and […]

Sep, 13

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