Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Bad Company **** (1972, Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage, Jerry Houser, Geoffrey Lewis, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 4160

The 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey in the 1972 Western film Bad Company. The young, just 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a particularly magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey, an […]

Aug, 12

Pete’s Dragon ***½ (2016, Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence) – Movie Review

Disney’s ecologically minded and morally minded remake of its 1977 classic Pete’s Dragon is an odd little film but it is sweet and I liked it. Though warm, friendly, down-home and old fashioned Americana, it is quite […]

Aug, 12

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