Derek Winnert

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Home from Home [Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht] ***** (2013, Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Edgar Reitz‘s overwhelming world cinema masterpiece makes a devastating emotional and intellectual impact. Astoundingly you can look in vain for international movie awards for it, though it was appreciated in Germany. Reitz shoots his […]

Apr, 09

Le Corbeau [The Raven] **** (1943, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey) – Classic Movie Review 2357

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 polished, sinister and stylish French mystery thriller concerns a mysterious poison-pen writer who is threatening a small French provincial town called St Robin. The dark and subversive screenplay is based on […]

Apr, 04

Message in a Bottle *** (1999, Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman) – Classic Movie Review 2021

Director Luis Mandoki turns the novel by Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember, The Notebook) into a fine 1999 movie romance as journalist Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn) finds Garret Blake (Kevin Costner)’s love letter […]

Dec, 30

Dear God *** (1996, Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Pitillo, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 2000

It is hard to dislike director Garry Marshall’s 1996 feel-good comedy, in which Greg Kinnear stars as conman Tom Turner, who gets a job in the dead-letter department of the US Post Office, and decides […]

Dec, 24

Can’t Hardly Wait ***½ (1998, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Seth Green, Peter Facinelli) – Classic Movie Review 1966

Writer-directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan’s multi-character 1998 teenage comedy romance Can’t Hardly Wait focuses on American high-schoolers on the last night before graduation who naturally can’t hardly wait for their lives to begin for real. In […]

Dec, 16

Back to the Future Part III **** (1990, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 1935

For the final Back to the Future film of the trilogy in 1990, screenwriter Bob Gale comes up with the appealing idea to send Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) back to 1885. Marty has to […]

Dec, 08

Dear Frankie **** (2004, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler) – Classic Movie Review 1901

Emily Mortimer stars as single mother Lizzie, who has a deaf wee Scots lad Frankie (Jack McElhone) as her son. Constantly moving about, the duo have recently arrived in a seaside Scottish town. Mum wants to […]

Nov, 29

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