Derek Winnert

The Spiral Staircase **** (1946, Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent) – Classic Movie Review 2277

Robert Siodmak’s 1946 psychological suspense thriller The Spiral Staircase is smooth, tense and gripping.  Director Robert Siodmak’s suspenseful 1946 psychological thriller The Spiral Staircase is smoothly done, tense and gripping. It is based on the […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

The Guilt Trip *** (2012, Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen) – Classic Movie Review 2275

Unexpectedly funny and successful 2012 American comedy-drama starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, who both are on best form as Jewish mom Joyce Brewster and her inventor son Andy who embark on a bickering, bonding […]

Mar, 17 · in Reviews

Nuts **** (1987, Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 2274

Director Martin Ritt’s 1987 drama stars Barbra Streisand, who works her fingernails to the bone for credibility as a parentally abused high-class call girl, Claudia Draper, who has killed one of her clients called Allen […]

Mar, 17

The Dark Mirror **** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2273

Robert Siodmak directs one of Hollywood’s better Forties psychological film noir thrillers in 1946. It finds Olivia de Havilland on rousing form, enjoying herself enormously in two roles as identical twins Terry and Ruth Collins, one […]

Mar, 16

The Way We Were ***½ (1973, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 2,272

The double Oscar-winning 1973 romantic drama film The Way We Were is a thoroughly professional old-style Hollywood piece of work, well intentioned and entertaining. It’s Streisand and Redford together! Director Sydney Pollack’s double Oscar-winning 1973 […]

Mar, 16

Funny Lady **** (1975, Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif) – Classic Movie Review 2271

Director Herbert Ross’s entertaining but less enjoyable 1975 sequel to Funny Girl has with the inestimable benefit of Barbra Streisand still enjoying herself as singer Fanny Brice, who this time marries the showman Billy Rose (James Caan) and a stormy […]

Mar, 16

Darling **** (1965, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 2,270

John Schlesinger’s triumphant 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging […]

Mar, 15

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