Derek Winnert

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The Scarlet Letter * (1995, Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 2948

Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]

Oct, 03

Heaven Is For Real ** (2014, Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Margo Martindale) – Movie Review

Greg Kinnear stars as real-life American small-town preacher and father whose four-year-old son (Connor Corum) nearly dies of appendicitis in hospital but experiences an actual trip to Heaven, where he meets Jesus, a young version of his grandfather and […]

May, 31

The Quick and the Dead *** (1995, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe) – Classic Film Review 1223

Director Sam Raimi’s entertaining, if patchy, very violent 1995 black-comedy Western spoofs the style and themes of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. It stars Sharon Stone as you never saw her before as Ellen, a leather-clad […]

May, 17

Pale Rider **** (1985, Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 1,169

The 1985 American film Pale Rider is the highest-grossing Western of the 1980s, and Clint Eastwood’s only Western of the 1980s. Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Western Pale Rider impresses with its riffs on the very similar […]

May, 02

The Night of the Hunter ***** (1955, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish) – Classic Movie Review 357

‘This morning we were married, and now you think I’m going to kiss you, hold you, call you my wife!’ – Robert Mitchum. With a beautifully crafted, literate screenplay by James Agee based on the […]

Nov, 03

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