Derek Winnert

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The Big Bus **** (1976, Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty, Bob Dishy, José Ferrer, Ruth Gordon, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman) – Classic Movie Review 8172

All aboard the ultimately luxurious coach for director James Frawley’s 1976 The Big Bus, a hilarious parody of Seventies disaster movies in which drivers Dan Torrance and Shoulders (played by Joseph Bologna and John Beck) […]

Feb, 26

Ice Castles **** (1978, Robby Benson, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Skerritt) – Classic Movie Review 4990

Co-writer/ director Donald Wrye’s sweet 1978 drama stars Robby Benson as a boy who helps an aspiring Iowa Olympic ice figure-skating girl (Lynn-Holly Johnson) to overcome her handicap to pursue her dreams after she is blinded in […]

Feb, 15

Born To Be Blue ***½ (2015, Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Rennie, Stephen McHattie) – Movie Review

A portrait in wrecked, crumpled charm, Ethan Hawke gives a strong and powerful performance as trumpeter Chet Baker in writer-director Robert Budreau‘s 2015 story of the tormented heroin-addicted jazz legend’s musical comeback in the late Sixties. It […]

Aug, 01

Boyhood ***** (2014, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane) – Movie Review

Writer-director Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a five-star marvel, probably the best film I’ve seen all year, or at least the one I liked, admired, enjoyed and relished most. It’s the perfect antidote to all the […]

Jul, 10

The Big Lebowski ***** (1998, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, David Thewlis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, Peter Stormare, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 288

‘This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.’ Super-charged with confidence in 1998 after the success of Fargo, the Coen Brothers score again and come up with another beloved cult classic crime comedy. […]

Oct, 13

Mystery Men **** (1999, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, William H Macy, Hank Azaria, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Wes Studi) – Classic Movie Review 161

The seven Mystery Men come to the rescue after the incredibly wicked Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) seizes his amazingly nice nemesis, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear). Capt Amazing, aka Lance, has foolishly released Frankenstein from captivity so […]

Aug, 15

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