Derek Winnert

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Desert Hearts **** (1985, Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Dean Butler, Jeffrey Tambor, Gwen Welles) – Classic Movie Review 5405

Producer-director Donna Deitch’s triumphant 1985 lesbian drama Desert Hearts is wonderfully stirring, romantic and heartwarming. Based on the novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule, Natalie Cooper’s screenplay is about 30-something New York woman […]

May, 06

The Wedding Party ** (1969, Charles Pfluger, Valda Setterfield, Raymond McNally, John Braswell, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Salt, William Finley, Jill Clayburgh) – Classic Movie Review 5380

This wildly comic 1969 film farce is written, produced, edited and directed by theatre professor Wilford Leach and two of his students, protégé Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe, who bankrolled its $43,000 budget. The plot follows the […]

May, 01

The Zookeeper’s Wife **** (2017, Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl) -Movie Review

Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh star as the married couple Antonina and Jan Zabinski, keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save 300 people during the German invasion of Poland. Daniel Brühl plays the leading Nazi, […]

Apr, 22

Normal **½ (2003, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Lange, Hayden Panettiere, Clancy Brown) – Classic Movie Review 5130

Writer-director Jane Anderson’s nice spirited, if uncomfortable and not entirely successful 2003 drama is set around the lives of a married couple, Roy and Irma (Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Lange), in a church-going, Middle America community. […]

Mar, 10

Nora *** (2000, Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Peter McDonald, Andrew Scott) – Classic Movie Review 5128

Ewan McGregor stars as Dublin writer James Joyce, who meets Galway hotel maid Nora Barnacle (Susan Lynch) in director Pat Murphy’s well-told, nicely acted and involving R rated 2000 biographical drama of their relationship. Peter McDonald co-stars as […]

Mar, 10

Committed ** (2000, Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic) – Classic Movie Review 5048

Writer-director Lisa Krueger’s weird 2000 road movie comedy drama is a bumpy ride, with a shaky star turn by always likeable Heather Graham. But she has an incredibly good cast to bail her out slightly. […]

Feb, 22

If These Walls Could Talk **** (1996, Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek, Cher, Shirley Knight, Kathleen Keener, Jason London, C C H Pounder, Kevin Cooney) – Classic Movie Review 5032

A marvellous cast is assembled for three sincere, affecting and compelling stories of abortion set in different periods – 1952, 1974 (both directed by Nancy Savoca) and 1996 (directed by Cher) – set in the […]

Feb, 20

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