Derek Winnert

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The Best Things in Life Are Free *** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9913

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths […]

Jun, 15

High Art *** (1998, Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson) – Classic Movie Review 9001

Writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s 1998 romantic drama High Art stars Radha Mitchell as a young woman intern whose magazine career is on the rise, thanks to her relationship with a once beautiful lesbian photographer (Ally Sheedy), […]

Oct, 21

The Horsemen ** (1971, Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 8527

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1971 macho action adventure drama The Horsemen is propelled with a sterling performance by Omar Sharif as Uraz, the son of sheikh Tursen (Jack Palance), wounded and humiliated in a barbaric variant […]

May, 31

Cross of Iron **** (1977, James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 8358

Director Sam Peckinpah’s distinguished 1977 war film Cross of Iron is a tough and compelling dissection of the German military mind, seen through the eyes of four men in bloody battle against Russia in 1943. […]

Apr, 12

Lady with Red Hair *** (1940, Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley) – Classic Movie Review 8062

Miriam Hopkins is the titular redhead in director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1940 drama Lady with Red Hair, a glossy, fictional account of the career and times of actress Mrs Leslie Carter and her guiding hand, the […]

Jan, 26

The Founder **** (2016, Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini) – Movie Review

The Founder starts as an advert for McDonald’s fast food and the disposable, ambitious, cheery, patriotic American way. But then, just when you think you are paying to see and advert, it turns quite dark […]

Feb, 24

The Carer ***½ (2016, Brian Cox, Coco König, Anna Chancellor, Emilia Fox, Karl Johnson, Roger Moore) – Movie Review

The 2016 film The Carer is all about a legendary old thespian, played with the utmost skill and relish by a perfectly cast Brian Cox as the increasingly ill Sir Michael Gifford, suffering from an […]

Aug, 06

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