Derek Winnert

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean **** (1982, Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1,760

Cher, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis star in Robert Altman’s stupendous 1982 movie Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the first of his fertile film adaptations of stage plays.   […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

Denise Calls Up **** (1995, Tim Daly, Caroleen Feeney, Dan Gunther) – Classic Movie Review 1759

  A group of New Yorker friends, busy working on their PCs and laptops, are for ever calling each other up – but never actually meeting – in writer-director Hal Salwen’s witty 1995 satirical comedy. Too busy […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

Down to You ** (2000, Freddie Prinze Jr, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair) – Classic Movie Review 1758

Writer-director Kris Isacsson’s 2000 effort is a sweet, light-weight, warm-hearted romantic comedy and relationship movie in which a nice, sympathetic guy wins and loses his first serious love of his life. Freddie Prinze Jr stars as Al Connelly, […]

Oct, 11

Head Over Heels ** (2001, Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze Jr, Shalom Harlow) – Classic Movie Review 1757

  Freddie Prinze Jr falls for Monica Potter against the background of New York’s world of fashion in this amusingly girly comedy. Art restorer Amanda (Potter) finds she has supermodels (Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah […]

Oct, 11

Summer Catch ** (2001, Freddie Prinze Jr, Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 1756

Director Michael Tollin’s moderate 2001 sports-comedy-drama-romance is a typical Freddie Prinze Jr movie, in which he smiles a lot and looks sad a lot as Ryan Dunne, a working-class kid with major baseball league aspirations. […]

Oct, 11

The Imitation Game **** (2014, Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode) – Movie Review

Debut screenwriter Graham Moore fashions an enjoyable, popular screenplay out of Andrew Hodges‘s book about legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, and director Morten Tyldum makes a crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned entertainment out of it. Turing joins the team of code-breakers at Britain’s […]

Oct, 10

The Calling *** (2014, Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn) – Movie Review

Sub-Fargo genre serial killer thriller The Calling is a very average entertainment, but in a good way. It fails to carve out any new ground in a crowded market, or be unique or special in any […]

Oct, 10

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