Derek Winnert

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Youth **** (2015, Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda) – Movie Review

It’s the 82-year-old Michael Caine’s best role and best piece of serious acting in years, triumphing over risky and weirdly eccentric casting against type as retired classical composer and orchestra conductor Fred Ballinger. He is enjoying a Swiss […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

Room **** (2015, Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H Macy, Sean Bridgers) – Movie Review

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay star as Ma and Jack, a devoted mother and her spirited five-year-old son, who are trapped in a windowless, 10-foot by 10-foot room, where bizarrely Ma tries to create a life for them […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

Joy **** (2015, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen) – Movie Review

An exceptional cast is assembled for Joy, the story of an Italian-American family across four generations and Joy Mangano, the young woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. But Jennifer […]

Dec, 20

Stella Dallas **** (1925, Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce, Lois Moran, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 3177

Director Henry King’s esteemed and moving 1925 silent version of Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel was remade in 1937 and 1990 (as Stella). Belle Bennett magnificently takes the title role as the slatternly lower class Stella […]

Dec, 20

Stella Dallas **** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Barbara O’Neil, Anne Shirley, Tim Holt, Marjorie Main, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3176

Director King Vidor’s incomparable 1937 version of the tear-jerker soap opera tale of a warm and gutsy but slatternly lower-class woman who sacrifices herself for her daughter was previously filmed in 1925, and remade as Stella in […]

Dec, 20

Harvey ***** (1950, James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Wallace Ford, Ida Moore, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 3175

‘The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play… becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!’ Don’t undersell it, will you? Director Henry Koster’s enchanting 1950 comedy enshrines one of James Stewart’s most delightful and beloved […]

Dec, 20

Hang ’em High **** (1968, Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, James MacArthur, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Charles McGraw, Ben Johnson, L Q Jones, Bruce Dern, Alan Hale Jr, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3,174

Clint Eastwood becomes a US Marshal to track down and kill the nine vigilantes who lynched him and left him to die. in the moody, exciting and cynical 1968 Western movie Hang ’em High. When […]

Dec, 20

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