Derek Winnert

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Dead End **** (1937, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Billy Halop) – Classic Movie Review 6914

Billy Halop was cast as Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley’s play Dead End and got the call to go to Hollywood with the rest of the young actors playing the Dead End […]

Apr, 12

HouseSitter *** (1992, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat, Peter MacNicol) – Classic Movie Review 6899

Director Frank Oz’s 1992 fantasy romantic comedy HouseSitter is uneven, but it is always an amiable and inoffensive entertainment, and in its best stretches it is very funny. Steve Martin stars as Newton Davis, a […]

Apr, 08

Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] **** (1955, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 6281

This early Michelangelo Antonioni 1955 Italian film Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] is a highly successful, clever adaptation of a Cesare Pavese story (Tra Donne Sole) about the relationships between a young cosmopolitan fashion designer […]

Nov, 21

Jungle Fever *** (1991, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Anthony Quinn, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Lonette McKee, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 6262

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s sharp and edgy 1991 drama stars Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify, a married African-American architect who cheats on his wife Drew (Lonette McKee) and begins an affair with his Italian secretary Angie Tucci […]

Nov, 16

To Rome with Love *** (2012, Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Judy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 5791

Writer-director Woody Allen’s trip to Rome produces a very odd and very silly, though weirdly likeable and sometimes very amusing, multi-stranded romantic comedy. It gives the impression of being dashed off in a hurry to […]

Jul, 19

One Fine Day **** (1996, George Clooney, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mae Whitman, Alex D Linz, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 5366

George Clooney stars as pressurised New York newspaper columnist Jack Taylor, who meets frenzied architectural designer Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer). But at first they are both way too busy with their jobs and looking after their […]

Apr, 29

Quicksand: No Escape *** (1992, Donald Sutherland, Tim Matheson, Jay Acovone, Felicity Huffman) – Classic Movie Review 5336

The always-admirable Donald Sutherland grabs an ideal opportunity to show his worth as a corrupt private eye in director Michael Pressman’s tense, clever 1992 offbeat thriller. Sutherland’s character Murdoch gets into blackmail after he is […]

Apr, 23

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