Derek Winnert

The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815

Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]

Feb, 09 · in Reviews

The Dirty Dozen ***** (1967, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Robert Ryan, Jim Brown, George Kennedy, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 813

Robert Aldrich’s 1967 World War Two action movie The Dirty Dozen is a fondly remembered, often screened blockbuster smash-hit. It’s not a subtle film but it is a brilliantly exciting one, with an iconic cast. […]

Feb, 08 · in Reviews

Greenberg **** (2010, Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rhys Ifans) – Classic Movie Review 814

Ben Stiller does well in a straightish role as 40ish layabout Roger Greenberg, who is making a five-course banquet out of his middle-age crisis, in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s intelligent and entertaining, if rather depressingly sad, bitter-sweet […]

Feb, 08

17 Again ***½ (2009, Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Melora Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 805

Matthew Perry co-stars in the 2009 teen fantasy comedy film 17 Again as the 37-year-old as Mike O’Donnell, who gets a second chance to be 17 again and is reincarnated as main star Zac Efron. […]

Feb, 08

X-Men Origins: Wolverine **** (2009, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Danny Huston) – Classic Movie Review 806

Pecs gleaming and locks glowing, Hugh Jackman growls and glowers to comic-book perfection as James Logan, who becomes the fighting machine known as Wolverine, a hairy bloke with handy killer claws, nifty healing powers and […]

Feb, 08

Star Trek ***** (2009, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Zoe Saldana) – Classic Movie Review 807

Star Trek makes a triumphant return in director J J Abrams’s breathtaking 2009 reboot, getting away with all its decisions – except two. Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are brilliant as the young Kirk and […]

Feb, 08

An Affair To Remember ***** (1957, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning) – Classic Movie Review 812

Ideal stars Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are cast in the second of their three movies together as handsome playboy Nickie Ferrante and beautiful nightclub singer Terry McKay who enjoy a romance while on a […]

Feb, 08

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