Derek Winnert

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Scarecrow **** (1973, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Eileen Brennan, Ann Wedgeworth) – Classic Movie Review 3484

Time has been kind to this almost forgotten gem of 50 years ago. Jerry Schatzberg’s 1973 drama film Scarecrow stars Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, who light sparks as drifters who meet up and form an […]

Mar, 19

Bound for Glory **** (1976, David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Randy Quaid, M Emmet Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3188

Director Hal Ashby’s double Oscar-winning 1976 biopic of early life of Woody Guthrie provides a great star showcase for David Carradine who stars as the legendary vagabond folk singer. Carradine gives an impressive account of Woody Guthrie, […]

Dec, 28

The Fog * (1980, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers) – Classic Movie Review 2969

Director John Carpenter, who had just done horror so brilliantly with Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978), comes up with this feeble, daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller. In Carpenter’s screenplay, written with Debra Hill, […]

Oct, 10

The Drowning Pool *** (1975, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Melanie Griffith, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Richard Jaeckel, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2935

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1975 mystery thriller The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, who reprises his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper (Archer in the novels) in an acceptable sequel to his far […]

Oct, 03

Lessons in Love [Some Kind of Beautiful] ** (2014, Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba, Malcolm McDowell) – Movie Review

Pierce Brosnan plays a Cambridge poetry professor who begins to re-evaluate his lusty life of roving-eye sexual excess after meeting American sisters Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba in London. Director Tom Vaughan’s romcom, written by Matthew Newman, has […]

Sep, 24

The Parent Trap *** (1961, Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 2862

Writer-director David Swift’s inventive and amusing 1961 Walt Disney live-action comedy-adventure The Parent Trap tells the story of twin sisters who meet for the first time on a summer holiday and decide to try to […]

Aug, 29

The Parent Trap ** (1998, Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2861

Director Nancy Meyers’s 1998 remake for Walt Disney of its own 1961 Hayley Mills hit The Parent Trap stars a pre-troubled era young Lindsay Lohan. It is based on the 1949 novel Das Doppelte Löttchen […]

Aug, 29

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