Derek Winnert

Sweet Home Alabama *** (2002, Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Lucas, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward, Jean Smart, Ethan Embry, Melanie Lynskey) – Classic Movie Review 768

Director Andy Tennant’s 2002 romcom stars Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Smooter, a pert and cute hick from the sticks who makes it big in the Big Apple fashion biz, and is soon talked into marriage […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days *** (2003, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 767

In director Donald Petrie’s breezy 2003 romcom How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Kate Hudson stars as Andie Anderson, a magazine writer who is assigned to write an article about how to lose […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

The Machinist **** (2004, Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Michael Ironside, Anna Massey, Larry Gilliard, Reg E Cathey) – Classic Movie Review 766

Christian Bale is great in a stylish and unsettling study of paranoia in director Brad Anderson’s 2004 psychological horror thriller that’s as chilling as it is gripping. Bale lost four stones to play Trevor Reznik, […]

Jan, 29

That Old Feeling **** (1997, Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Paula Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 765

The advertising line tell the whole story: ‘It was the perfect wedding except for two things …the bride’s parents.’ Director Carl Reiner’s fun 1997 movie stars Bette Midler and Dennis Farina as feuding former married […]

Jan, 28

Isn’t She Great **** (2000, Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 764

An ideally cast Bette Midler has a field day as real-life failed actress Jacqueline Susann, who turns herself into the queen of the trashy bestsellers after becoming the world-famous writer of The Valley of the […]

Jan, 28

In and Out [In & Out] *** (1997, Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck) – Classic Movie Review 763

Director Frank Oz’s widely popular, gay-friendly 1997 movie is a good-natured but shaky comedy about an American mid-western small-town teacher (Kevin Kline), about to be married to his childhood sweetheart (Joan Cusack), who is outed as […]

Jan, 28

In Good Company *** (2004, Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson) – Classic Movie Review 762

After a corporate takeover and company ‘restructuring’, young hotshot Carter (Topher Grace) replaces talented 50-year-old sports magazine ad exec madman Dan (Dennis Quaid) but decides to keep him on as his number two to help […]

Jan, 28

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