Derek Winnert

The Man in the Moon **** (1991, Reese Witherspoon, Jason London, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland) – Classic Movie Review 2883

Director Robert Mulligan’s lovely 1991 romantic drama stars Reese Witherspoon as an adolescent girl, the 14-year-old Dani Trant, who falls head over heels for her older cousin Court Foster (Jason London). He in turn fancies her […]

Sep, 05 · in Articles

Safe Men *** (1998, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Lerner, Paul Giamatti, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 2882

Writer-director John Hamburg’s 1998 comedy crime thriller is a splendidly rum brew. Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn give effortlessly weird performances as pathetic, self-deluded, low-life crooks way out of their depth in the underworld of […]

Sep, 05 · in Articles

Safe Passage *** (1994, Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard, Nick Stahl, Sean Astin, Robert Sean Leonard, Marcia Gay Harden, Jason London) – Classic Movie Review 2881

Director Robert Allan Ackerman’s very typically American 1994 rites-of-passage movie is sentimental, often satisfying and ultimately warm and cosy, like a log fire in winter. After playing the matriarch Mrs March in the 1994 Little Women, Susan […]

Sep, 05

A Safe Place *** (1971, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 2880

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1971 drama stars Tuesday Weld in an affecting performance as a strange girlish young woman named Noah, a disturbed, free spirited flower child living alone in New York City. She is locked into […]

Sep, 05

Pasolini **** (2014, Willem Dafoe, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ninetto Davoli, Maria de Medeiros, Adriana Asti) – Movie Review

Director Abel Ferrara’s inventive and disturbing film is an impressionistic kaleidoscopic look at the events of the last day in the life of the controversial and provocative gay Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. Like it subject, […]

Sep, 05

Steamboat Bill Jr ***** (1928, Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron) – Classic Movie Review 2879

Director Charles F Reisner’s 1928 comedy is the last great Buster Keaton silent movie. It takes its place along with The General (1926) at the peak of his creativity. All involved in the film agreed that he […]

Sep, 04

Carnal Knowledge **** (1971, Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel) – Classic Movie Review 2878

Director Mike Nichols’s grown-up 1971 film drama stars Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret. It is based on a witty screenplay by renowned humourist Jules Feiffer, from his then unproduced play. Feiffer pitched the […]

Sep, 04

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