Derek Winnert

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Soul Survivors ** (2001, Melissa Sagemiller, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone, Luke Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 5703

Melissa Sagemiller plays a college young woman called Cassie who is traumatised by a horrific car crash that killed her boyfriend (Casey Affleck). Cassie is befriended by a mysterious young priest named Father Jude (Luke […]

Jul, 03

The House * (2017, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Ryan Simpkins, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll, Jeremy Renner) – Movie Review 

Will Ferrell (6′ 3″) and Amy Poehler (5′ 2″) star as loving but dizzy middle aged married couple Scott and Kate Johansen, who desperately need to find the cash when their daughter Alex (Ryan Simpkins) gets in […]

Jul, 02

Tammy, Tell Me True ** (1961, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 5513

Director Harry Keller’s 1961 follow-up film to the first hit Tammy and the Bachelor has Sandra Dee taking over from Debbie Reynolds as kind-hearted Tammy Tyree as she smirks and schmoozes her way through college, […]

May, 28

Baby It’s You **** (1982, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin) – Classic Movie Review 5211

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1982 romantic comedy drama is an extremely pleasing 1960s-set high school story about two mismatched lovers – an Italian boy with serious clothes an an attitude problem and the pretty Jewish schoolgirl […]

Mar, 28

How to be Very, Very Popular ** (1955, Betty Grable, Sheree North, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5168

In her final film, aged 39, the Very, Very Popular Betty Grable bows out with writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thin but amiable 1955 comedy, with only one song by Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn – the title […]

Mar, 16

It Runs in the Family *** (2003, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Michelle Monaghan, Rory Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 5094

The long-awaited meeting of Michael Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas on film had to wait till Kirk was 87 and had suffered a major stroke. Still, better late than never. In director Fred Schepisi’s […]

Mar, 03

If These Walls Could Talk 2 **** (2000, Vanessa Redgrave, Marian Seldes, Paul Giamatti, Chloë Sevingy, Elizabeth Perkins, Nia Long, Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres) – Classic Movie Review 5033

The follow-up to 1996’s If These Walls Could Talk tells three sincere, affecting and compelling stories of lesbian relationships set in different periods – 1961, 1972 and 2000. Again, the three segments are set in […]

Feb, 20

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