Derek Winnert

Last Holiday *** (2006, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Jane Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4285

Queen Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd in an amusing and enjoyable remake of the 1950 British semi-classic Last Holiday with Alec Guinness, in a project intended for John Candy but shelved on his death. Queen Latifah plays […]

Sep, 02 · in Uncategorized

The Matador **** (2005, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 4284

Pierce Brosnan scores a hit as a world-weary hit-man, who drags failed salesman Greg Kinnear into his crazy way of life in Mexico. Much later, a desperate Brosnan turns up at Kinnear’s home to seek […]

Sep, 02 · in Uncategorized

The Skeleton Key ** (2005, Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Joy Bryant ) – Classic Movie Review 4283

Kate Hudson stars in the 2005 horror movie The Skeleton Key as Caroline Ellis, who takes a job as live-in carer at the Louisiana plantation house of elderly Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands), looking after her […]

Sep, 01

Rachel, Rachel **** (1968, Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, James Olson, Kate Harrington) – Classic Movie Review 4280

Producer Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward make an excellent film team as the director and star of this sensitive 1968 movie based on the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. In […]

Sep, 01

The Three Faces of Eve **** (1957, Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 4279

Joanne Woodward won the 1958 Best Actress Oscar (and Golden Globe) as a real-life housewife from Georgia suffering from a rare multiple personality disorder, in the 1957 drama film The Three Faces of Eve. Joanne […]

Sep, 01

The Fixer *** (1968, Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Holm, Jack Gilford, Elizabeth Hartman, Carol White, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 4282

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1968 movie of Bernard Malamud’s much admired novel is forceful and well meaning. But is also long, slow-moving and very hard going and was therefore unsurprisingly not popular at the box office. However, it […]

Sep, 01

Johnny Got His Gun **** (1971, Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards Jnr, Marsha Hunt, Donald Sutherland, Kathy Fields, Diane Varsi) – Classic Movie Review 4281

Writer-director Dalton Trumbo’s brilliant and devastating 1971 movie stars Timothy Bottoms as bomb-wounded First World War soldier Joe Bonham who wakes up without half his body. He has no limbs, sight, hearing or speech. When […]

Sep, 01

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