Derek Winnert

Sabrina *** (1954, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden) – Classic Film Review 934

Director Billy Wilder’s 1954 romance is a pleasant but modest and none-too-sparkling romantic comedy based on a creaky 1953 Broadway play Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor. William Holden stars as David Larrabee, an easy-going Long Island playboy along with […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

Sabrina ** (1995, Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 933

Director Sydney Pollack’s 1995 romance is a totally turgid remake of Billy Wilder’s none-too-sparkling original based on a creaky old play Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor. In this uneasy romantic comedy, Long Island playboy David […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

Random Hearts *** (1999, Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S Dutton, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 932

Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s 1999 romance focuses on the anger and grief that bring two strangers (Internal Affairs officer Harrison Ford, Congresswoman Kristin Scott Thomas) together after a plane crash that kills their respective faithless spouses […]

Mar, 18

Ghostbusters **** (1984, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 931

Who ya gonna call? Producer-director Ivan Reitman’s 1984 special effects-led sci-fi comedy blockbuster Ghostbusters was boosted to huge popular success by Ray Parker Jnr’s hit song and a great ad campaign featuring a ghost sign […]

Mar, 17

Bedazzled *** (2000, Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 930

Brendan Fraser plays a nerdy, socially awkward IT worker and computer buff who meets up with The Devil, a very seductive Satan. She grants him seven wishes in return for selling his soul, tempting him with […]

Mar, 17

The Broken Hearts Club **** (2000, Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, Ben Weber, John Mahoney, Mary McCormack, Nia Long) – Classic Movie Review 929

Writer-director Greg Berlanti’s 2000 comedy is that rare mainstream movie – a quality, funny, perceptive, life-affirming character study of a group of gay men living, loving and bitching in West Hollywood, LA. Happily, in the […]

Mar, 17

Primary Colors **** (1998, John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 928

Producer-director Mike Nichols’s 1998 film stars John Travolta, who enjoys himself enormously as US presidential candidate Jack Stanton, a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House, with his savvy, ambitious wife […]

Mar, 17

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