Derek Winnert

Hombre **** (1967, Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Barbara Rush, Frank Silvera, Martin Balsam, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 860

Director Martin Ritt’s 1967 Western is a tense, intelligent, suspenseful movie, only maybe a little bit too obviously message-strewn for its own good. It reunites the star, the director, the writers and cinematographer of the 1963 triumph […]

Mar, 02 · in Reviews

Slacker **** (1991, Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine) – Classic Movie Review 859

Writer-producer-director Richard Linklater’s clever, warmly regarded 1991 no-budget ($23,000, apparently) cult comedy hit focuses on some weird and wacky characters during a day in the life of Austin, Texas. The springboard for Linklater’s sparkling career, Slacker has […]

Mar, 02 · in Uncategorized

Before Sunset ***** (2004, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff) – Classic Movie Review 858

It’s 2004, and nine years on from their first tentative but passionate encounter in Richard Linklater’s 1995 romantic drama Before Sunrise (1995), Jesse (Ethan Hawke), now a writer, is back in Europe for a book […]

Mar, 02

Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater) – Classic Film Review 857

Co-writer/director Richard Linklater’s wonderful, magically romantic 1995 drama stars Ethan Hawke as Jesse, an American tourist in Europe who meets a French girl Céline (Julie Delpy) on a train. Jesse talks Céline into alighting at […]

Mar, 02

Dazed and Confused **** (1993, Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck) – Classic Film Review 856

Writer-director Richard Linklater’s 1993 follow-up to his 1991 no-budget comedy hit Slacker is one of the top 50 best ever high school movies. It confidently and compellingly focuses on a score or more characters in […]

Mar, 02

The Mothman Prophecies *** (2002, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Alan Bates, Debra Messing) – Classic Movie Review 853

Beware The Mothman! – a blinding vision with glaring red eyes who warns of disasters. Richard Gere stars as reporter John Klein, whose wife Mary (Debra Messing) sees The Mothman just before a fatal car crash. […]

Mar, 01

Rock Star *** (2001, Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Dominic West, Jason Flemyng, Timothy Spall, Timothy Olyphant) – Classic Movie Review 854

Mark Wahlberg shows his star quality as a copy machine repairer, pop fan and, by night, lead singer of Pennsylvania’s premiere Steel Dragon rock tribute band. Wahlberg’s Chris ‘Izzy’ Cole grabs his chance to join the actual Steel […]

Mar, 01

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