Derek Winnert

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Boys ** (1996, Winona Rider, Lucas Haas, John C Reilly, James LeGros, Skeet Ulrich, Wiley Wiggins) – Classic Movie Review 1486

Stacy Cochran’s interesting 1996 drama film Boys, with the theme of teenage lost innocence and growing up, has an excellent young cast of Winona Rider, Lucas Haas, John C Reilly, James LeGros, Skeet Ulrich and […]

Jul, 28

Out of Sight **** (1998, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Albert Brooks, Steve Zahn, Catherine Keener, Nancy Allen, Michael Keaton, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1001

Director Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 thriller is yet another highly intriguing and entertaining but not entirely great attempt at filming another of Elmore Leonard’s esteemed Florida low-life thrillers. It’s a problem that George Clooney just doesn’t […]

Mar, 27

Being John Malkovich **** (1999, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 818

Director Spike Jonze’s wonderfully odd, brilliantly clever, dazzlingly inventive fantasy comedy happily finds John Cusack on his best form. And there’s also the inestimable benefit of John Malkovich (as himself) gamely and brilliantly sending himself […]

Feb, 09

Synecdoche, New York **** (2008, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Hope Davis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dianne Wiest) – Classic Movie Review 799

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a tour-de-force as Caden Cotard, a terminally ill theatre director who struggles with his work and his women. Offered a grant, he decides to turn his life into art, and to […]

Feb, 04

Capote **** (2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 796

Philip Seymour Hoffman won the 2006 Best Actor Oscar for his eye-catching, brio performance as the destructively selfish gay author Truman Capote in director Bennett Miller’s gruelling, disturbing and depressing story of the five years Capote spent on […]

Feb, 03

The 40 Year-Old Virgin **** (2005, Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 530

Steve Carell raises a whole a lot of laughs as the title 40-year-old virgin whose wacky work buddies (Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Romany Malco) help him to start up his love life and finally get […]

Dec, 15

Captain Phillips **** (2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review

Tom Hanks finds a perfect part as the real-life Captain Richard Phillips, a canny and experienced American seaman, who is sent to command the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama, in 2009. He has to steer […]

Oct, 09

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