Derek Winnert

The Alamo **** (1960, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Richard Boone, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 1,904

John Wayne produces and directs, and stars as Davy Crockett in the 1960 American epic historical war film The Alamo about the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo. John Wayne produces and directs, and […]

Nov, 30 · in Reviews

The Wrong Box *** (1966, John Mills, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 1903

Julia Finsbury (Nanette Newman): ‘My father was a missionary. He was eaten by his Bible class.’ Producer-director Bryan Forbes’s unusual and likeable, delightfully daft 1966 British period screwball dark comedy is ‘suggested by’ Robert Louis Stevenson […]

Nov, 29 · in Reviews

Simon Sez * (1999, Dennis Rodman, Dane Cook, John Pinette) – Bad Movie 9

Beware director Kevin Elders’s appallingly weak 1999 action adventure comedy, starring basketball superstar Dennis Rodman as clever-talking Interpol agent simple Simon, who is attempting to defeat the deadly plans of a stereotypical crazed arms dealer. Dane […]

Nov, 29

Butterfly Kiss *** (1995, Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Kathy Jamieson) – Classic Movie Review 1902

Director Michael Winterbottom’s scary 1995 British thriller stars Amanda Plummer as hysterical psychopath lesbian Eunice, who is walking from one filling station to another along the roads of northern England. Searching for Judith, the woman, […]

Nov, 29

Dear Frankie **** (2004, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler) – Classic Movie Review 1901

Emily Mortimer stars as single mother Lizzie, who has a deaf wee Scots lad Frankie (Jack McElhone) as her son. Constantly moving about, the duo have recently arrived in a seaside Scottish town. Mum wants to […]

Nov, 29

Picture Perfect *** (1997, Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 1900

Co-writer/director Glenn Gordon Caron’s 1997 romantic comedy is alas not a perfect picture, but it is still an amiable and easy-going vehicle for Jennifer Aniston, with enough smiles and laughs to make it very tolerable. […]

Nov, 29

Shattered Glass **** (2003, Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Steve Zahn) – Classic Movie Review 1899

Writer-director Billy Ray’s 2003 real-life media drama finds good work for Hayden Christensen, who acts like a male model in the Star Wars series, but here kicks up a storm as real-life rogue reporter Stephen […]

Nov, 28

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