Derek Winnert

The Firm *** (1993, Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 1,536

Sydney Pollack’s simmering 1993 legal thriller film The Firm stars Tom Cruise as a promising young attorney seduced into joining a sinister Memphis family lawyer firm and Gene Hackman as his world-weary mentor. Director Sydney […]

Aug, 11 · in Reviews

Hans Christian Andersen *** (1952, Danny Kaye, Zizi Jeanmaire, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 1535

The opening credits of this fanciful 1952 Samuel Goldwyn-produced vehicle for Danny Kaye say it all: ‘Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog *** (1995, Jesse Bradford) – Classic Movie Review 1534

Jesse Bradford is super as young Angus McCormick (aged 14), who finds himself washed ashore in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest after a storm capsizes his boat at sea and separates him from his […]

Aug, 10

Laurel Canyon *** (2002, Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 1533

You don’t expect to see Oscar-winner Frances McDormand playing a free-spirited record producer prone to wild parties and taking dope, with her tongue down the throat of the fiancée (Kate Beckinsale) of her estranged son Sam (Christian […]

Aug, 10

Far from Heaven ***** (2002, Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert) – Classic Movie Review 1532

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s 2002 masterwork drama profitably reunites him with the star of his 1995 movie Safe, Julianne Moore. She plays Cathy, a Fifties New England housewife who finds that her perfect husband Frank (Dennis […]

Aug, 10

Longtime Companion **** (Campbell Scott, Dermot Mulroney, Bruce Davison, Stephen Caffrey) – Classic Movie Review 1531

Director Norman René’s heart-rending 1990 drama is a trailblazer as the first mainstream feature to tell the story of how the AIDS epidemic affected America’s gay community in the 80s. It centres on a small circle […]

Aug, 10

Safe *** (1995, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1530

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s smart and highly intriguing 1995 drama stars Julianne Moore, who gives a superb portrayal of a woman in ultimate peril as an allergy victim to the everyday pollution in her own surroundings. […]

Aug, 09

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