Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "friendship between men"

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Swing Kids **** (1993, Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey, Kenneth Branagh) – Classic Movie Review 11,248

Director Thomas Carter’s 1993 music drama Swing Kids stars Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey and Kenneth Branagh. In 1939 Germany, a close-knit group of young swing kids, among the few who have […]

May, 27

Wild Rovers *** (1971, William Holden, Ryan O’Neal, Karl Malden, Tom Skerritt, Joe Don Baker, Lynn Carlin, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 10,115

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s 1971 Western film Wild Rovers stars old-timer William Holden from The Wild Bunch and Ryan O’Neal fresh from Love Story as two likeable cowboy ruffians, Ross Bodine and Frank Post, cowhands on […]

Jul, 31

The Upside ** (2017, Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman) – Movie Review

The Upside is a slightly uneasy and uncomfortable, but not unentertaining comedy drama, with awkward casting and a rough-hewn, sharp-edged script, which gets some laughs and a few tears, but loses out on the truthful […]

Jan, 12

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot **** (1974, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 3167

Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]

Dec, 18

We Are Your Friends *** (2015, Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer, Jonny Weston, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski) – Movie Review

Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer and a brutalist shaven-headed Jonny Weston star as a quartet of 23-year-old drifters in a poor area of Hollywood (there’s a poor area of Hollywood?) who are still trying to […]

Aug, 26

Losin’ It *** (1983, Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P Navin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 1521

Director Curtis Hanson’s little-known 1983 comedy stars the 21-year-old Tom Cruise as Woody, a young and innocent Los Angeles kid, who heads south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico, with three stereotypically rowdy and randy […]

Aug, 05

The Best Man (1999, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut) – Classic Film Review 1183

Writer-director Malcolm D Lee’s 1999 ensemble comedy drama stars Taye Diggs as writer Harper Stewart, who lives in Chicago with his beautiful, devoted girlfriend Robin (Sanaa Lathan). His first book, an autobiographical novel entitled Unfinished Business, has been selected […]

May, 07

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