Derek Winnert

Manhattan Murder Mystery **** (1993, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Joy Behar, Ron Rifkin) – Classic Movie Review 4,323

Woody Allen wrote the lead role in the hilarious 1993 old-style comedy thriller film Manhattan Murder Mystery for Mia Farrow but, after their breakup, recast his old flame Diane Keaton. Woody Allen wrote the lead […]

Sep, 09 · in Uncategorized

The Wolfman ** (2010, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving) – Classic Movie Review 4324

After his brother is murdered by a werewolf in the woods, haunted Yorkshire nobleman Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) is called back to his family estate by his brother’s fiancée Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt) and is reunited […]

Sep, 09 · in Uncategorized

Gran Torino ****½ (2008, Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her) – Classic Movie Review 4322

For his first acting role since his 2004 four-Oscar-winning triumph Million Dollar Baby, director Clint Eastwood gives himself a perfectly tailor-made role in 2008 as Polish American Walt Kowalski, a newly widowed old guy in […]

Sep, 09

Youth in Revolt *** (2009, Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, M Emmet Walsh, Mary Kay Place, Justin Long, Fred Willard, Zach Galifianakis, Rooney Mara) – Classic Movie Review 4321

Ah yes, how to describe this? – a kind of teen romcom with good bad attitudes. Michael Cera is Nick Twisp, the youth in revolt, an alarmingly pale, thin weirdo 16-year-old, who will do just […]

Sep, 09

A Single Man **** (2009, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult) – Classic Movie Review 4320

Films come and go, but writer-director Tom Ford’s outstanding 2009 drama will stay in the mind and on the screen, thanks partly to Christopher Isherwood’s source story, partly to the film’s extraordinarily high quality, partly to […]

Sep, 08

Lonesome Jim *** (2005, Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan) – Classic Movie Review 4319

Based on a talented first original screenplay by James C Strouse, this is a fresh, funny and truthful-seeming dark comedy. Casey Affleck is word perfect as the Lonesome Jim of the title, a depressed 27-year-old […]

Sep, 08

Closing the Ring **** (2007, Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Martin McCann, Dylan Roberts, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 4318

The 83-year-old producer-director Richard Attenborough’s heartfelt, old-style 2007 romantic drama Closing the Ring is a delight, and it is a superb showcase for movie treasures Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, who grab their showy acting […]

Sep, 08

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