Derek Winnert

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Drive, He Said *** (1971, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, William Tepper) – Classic Movie Review 2884

Jack Nicholson co-writes (with Jeremy Larner, based on his novel), co-produces (with Steve Blauner) and makes his directorial debut in this 1971 campus-set, anti-establishment comedy drama. It expresses itself through a celebration of oddball characters, […]

Sep, 06

Carnal Knowledge **** (1971, Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel) – Classic Movie Review 2878

Director Mike Nichols’s grown-up 1971 film drama stars Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret. It is based on a witty screenplay by renowned humourist Jules Feiffer, from his then unproduced play. Feiffer pitched the […]

Sep, 04

Scream 2 **** (1997, Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O’Connell, Jada Pinkett, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2830

Two years after the slasher maniac went on a killing spree in the American suburban town called Woodsboro, the survivors of Scream (1996) are back for a second bout of expert terror, as cash-in film-makers […]

Aug, 18

Mona Lisa Smile *** (2003, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 2329

Director Mike Newell’s 2003 drama stars Julia Roberts, who flashes her big smile as Katherine Ann Watson, a free-spirited art professor at a posh, conservative Fifties American school, Wellesley College. As a free-thinking teacher, she is frustrated […]

Mar, 29

The Way We Were ***½ (1973, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 2272

Director Sydney Pollack’s double Oscar-winning 1973 romantic drama The Way We Were is a thoroughly professional old-style Hollywood piece of work, well intentioned and often entertaining but hollow at the centre and painstakingly but mechanically […]

Mar, 16

The Woman in the Window ***** (1944, Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2174

Fritz Lang’s superb 1944 film noir thriller The Woman in the Window stars Edward G Robinson as a professor obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to his men’s club. While […]

Feb, 13

The Butterfly Effect **** (2004, Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters) – Classic Movie Review 1888

Ashton Kutcher’s teen fans are in for a shock with writer-director Eric Bress and J Mackye Gruber’s 2004 sci-fi thriller. Kutcher dumps his big smile and goofy comedies in favour of frowns, a scruffy beard […]

Nov, 27

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