Derek Winnert

The Hummingbird Project *** (2018, Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek) – Movie Review

Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård are engaging as New York high-frequency trader cousins Vincent and Anton Zaleski who go up against their manipulative old boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek) to try to make millions in a fiber-optic […]

Oct, 13 · in Reviews

Beautiful Boy ** (2018, Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan) – Movie Review

Steve Carell stars as real-life troubled dad David Sheff and Timothée Chalamet co-stars as his drug and booze addicted son Nic Sheff in Belgian co-writer/ director Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, a drama of an […]

Oct, 13 · in Reviews

The Ice Follies of 1939 ** (1939, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 7665

Joan Crawford and James Stewart are on ice in director Reinhold Schunzel 1939 musical Ice Follies of 1939 – and it’s all in a day’s work for the stars at MGM. But not good work […]

Oct, 13

The Old Man & the Gun *** (2018, Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits) – Movie Review

Robert Redford stars in the 2018 American biographical crime film The Old Man & the Gun as career criminal and prison escape artist Forrest Tucker. Robert Redford twinkles and is endlessly charismatic as real-life bank robber Forrest […]

Oct, 12

Beyond the Forest *** (1949, Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 7664

Director King Vidor’s trashy 1949 film noir romantic drama Beyond the Forest stars a weirdly posturing, unattractive looking, black-wigged Bette Davis, and she is far from her best as Rosa Moline, a 1940s-style American Madame […]

Oct, 12

Seize the Day *** (1986, Robin Williams, Joseph Wiseman, Jerry Stiller, Glenne Headly, Tony Roberts, Jo Van Fleet, William Hickey, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 7663

Director Fielder Cook’s 1986 drama Seize the Day stars Robin Williams, who is stupendous as a Tommy Wilhelm, man in the middle of a personal and business crisis as he reaches 40, in this rewarding, […]

Oct, 12

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ***** (2018, Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Saul Rubinek, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Jonjo O’Neill, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]

Oct, 12

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