Derek Winnert

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The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815

Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]

Feb, 09

17 Again ***½ (2009, Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Melora Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 805

Matthew Perry co-stars in the 2009 teen fantasy comedy film 17 Again as the 37-year-old as Mike O’Donnell, who gets a second chance to be 17 again and is reincarnated as main star Zac Efron. […]

Feb, 08

Kick-Ass **** (2010, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mark Strong) – Classic Movie Review 787

Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy) stars in director Matthew Vaughn’s 2010 action comedy as ordinary New York teen Dave Lizewski, who takes his comic-book obsession to the max and becomes a superhero – Kick-Ass – gets […]

Feb, 01

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

The Faculty **** (1998, Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris) – Classic Movie Review 650

A hottish young cast spur the cheeky, hip and edgy youth-appeal 1998 sci-fi horror thriller The Faculty from Robert Rodriguez, the director of Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, and Kevin Williamson, the writer of […]

Jan, 08

She’s All That **** (1999, Freddie Prinze Jr, Rachel Leigh Cook, Paul Walker, Matthew Lillard, Anna Paquin, Kevin Pollak, Kieran Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 642

This is THE Freddie Prinze Jr movie. Director Robert Iscove’s 1999 movie is an essential, very likeable Nineties teen romantic comedy. Prinze Jr stars as hot-to-trot high-schooler Zach Siler, who, having just been dumped, makes a bet […]

Jan, 07

10 Things I Hate About You **** (1999, Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – Classic Movie Review 625

The 18-year-old Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Cameron James, a new student at Padua High, who soon spots Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik), a beautiful sophomore with one problem: her dad (Larry Miller) won’t allow her to date. […]

Jan, 04

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