Derek Winnert

Kalifornia *** (1993, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 7513

Director Dominic Sena’s nasty and upsetting 1993 psycho-thriller movie Kalifornia is hopefully the last word on serial killers. Clever though it may be, it is a thoroughly dislikeable and unpleasant piece of work. It turned out, […]

Aug, 29 · in Reviews

Too Young to Die? *** (1989, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michael Tucker, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7512

Young Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt show a lot of class and charisma in director Robert Markowitz’s shocking 1989 true-story drama. It is written by David Hill and George Rubino, based on a fact-based story by David […]

Aug, 29 · in Reviews

Cutting Class ** (1989, Donovan Leitch Jr, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, Martin Mull, Brenda James) – Classic Movie Review 7511

As you can easily gather from the punning title of director Rospo Pallenberg’s 1989 whodunit teen horror movie Cutting Class, a knife-killer is cutting a swathe through the high school student body. The goodish cast […]

Aug, 29

Valley of the Giants ** (1938, Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale Sr, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 7510

  Director William Keighley’s 1938 Warner Bros adventure Valley of the Giants stars Wayne Morris and Charles Bickford as lumberjacks Bill Cardigan and Howard Fallon who battle over California’s Redwood trees, when Easterner wood thieves move in […]

Aug, 29

The Big Trees *** (1952, Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr, Roy Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 7509

Director Felix E Feist’s 1952 adventure movie The Big Trees stars Kirk Douglas as timber baron John Fallon, the money-grabbing lumberman out to chop down California’s beautiful  giant sequoia redwood trees, in this ecologically sound […]

Aug, 28

The Evening Star ** (1996, Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Marion Ross, Donald Moffat, Scott Wolf, Jack Nicholson, Ben Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 7508

The grand evening star is Shirley MacLaine, who at the age of 62 revisits her Best Actress Oscar-winning role as Aurora Greenway in the film version of Larry McMurtry’s sequel to Terms of Endearment (1983). [Spoiler […]

Aug, 28

Terms of Endearment ***** (1983, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 7507

Director James L Brooks’s extraordinarily successful 1983 Terms of Endearment scooped up Five Oscars, including Best Picture (James L Brooks), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Shirley MacLaine), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Nicholson), Best […]

Aug, 28

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