Derek Winnert

Coma **** (1978, Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Elizabeth Ashley, Tom Selleck, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4142

Writer-director Michael Crichton’s hit 1978 medical thriller is 110% all it needs to be, tense, suspenseful, unusually unsettling and particularly satisfying. An ideally cast Geneviève Bujold is really effective as a feisty and intrepid junior […]

Aug, 08 · in Reviews

Eyes of Laura Mars ** (1978, Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Raul Julia, René Auberjonois, Lisa Taylor, Darlanne Fluegel) – Classic Movie Review 4141

Director Irvin Kershner’s trashy 1978 occult psycho-chiller Eyes of Laura Mars is frankly incredible and distasteful and has a particularly nasty tone. It is packed with irritating red herrings and climaxes with an unconvincing twist […]

Aug, 08 · in Reviews

Goodbye, Mr Chips **** (1939, Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid, Lyn Harding, Austin Trevor, Terry Kilburn, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 4140

Director Sam Wood’s vintage 1939 drama Goodbye, Mr Chips puts the spotlight on Robert Donat, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his masterly portrayal of a prim and proper classics teacher at a boys’ boarding […]

Aug, 07

Goodbye Lover *** (1998, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Arquette, Don Johnson, Ellen DeGeneres, Mary-Louise Parker, Alex Rocco, André Gregory, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 4139

Director Roland Joffé’s 1998 movie stars Dermot Mulroney as Jake, who is understandably very upset when he finds out that his sultry wife Sandra, Patricia Arquette, is carrying on a hot affair with his older […]

Aug, 07

The Goodbye Girl **** (1977, Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings) – Classic Movie Review 4138

The likeable 1977 film The Goodbye Girl provides a great showcase for Richard Dreyfuss, who won the 1978 Best Actor Oscar as a struggling off-Broadway actor reluctantly forced to live with an unemployed divorced dancer […]

Aug, 07

The Hawks and the Sparrows [Uccellacci e Uccelini] ***½ (1966, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi) – Classic Movie Review 4136

Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1966 bitter-sweet parable film, about an old father (the grizzled iconic comedian Totò) and his son (the director’s mop-topped discovery Ninetto Davoli) who go on their travels along the road in the […]

Aug, 07

Gossip ***½ (2000, James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, Kate Hudson, Joshua Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 4137

Cross Urban Legend with Cruel Intentions, add a dash of Scream and a bit of Dial M for Murder, and you get director Davis Guggenheim’s splendidly teasing and extremely stylish 2000 thriller. Well, they seem to be borrowing […]

Aug, 07

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