Derek Winnert

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The Unforgiven **** (Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Doug McClure) – Classic Movie Review 1617

Burt Lancaster, Audie Murphy and Doug McClure star as rancher brothers of the Zachary frontier family in this sterling, thoughtful Western directed by John Huston in 1960. Taken from a novel by Alan Le May who also wrote the […]

Sep, 01

The Misfits ***** (1961, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 1365

Director John Huston’s and playwright/screenwriter Arthur Miller’s 1961 modern-day Western is brilliantly strange and striking. It focuses on the lives of a quartet of loveable losers (‘the misfits’), who embark on a chase for symbolic horses against […]

Jun, 27

Toy Story ***** (1995, voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 1205

Director John Lasseter’s inspired 1995 Pixar/Disney release is one of the happiest, most magical animated movies of all time as well as the first feature-length computer-animated film. Tom Hanks provides the voice of old-time cowboy […]

May, 12

All the Pretty Horses *** (2000, Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick, Lucas Black, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 898

Billy Bob Thornton’s 2000 Western film All the Pretty Horses is astonishingly high, wide and handsome, adapting Cormac McCarthy’s highly regarded 1992 novel. Matt Damon and Henry Thomas play Texan misfit cowboys who travel to […]

Mar, 11

Open Range **** (2003, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 691

With director Kevin Costner’s 2003 movie Open Range, the old-style epic Western is back, at least for this one-off. And it’s a great one – as cattlemen Charley Waite and Boss Spearman (played by Kevin Costner […]

Jan, 17

Midnight Cowboy ***** (1969, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Jennifer Salt, Bob Balaban, Barnard Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 204

John Schlesinger’s controversial 1969 masterpiece Midnight Cowboy is a key film of the troubled late-Sixties and precious icon of its time, and the movie’s power and allure endure. Its impossibly young-looking stars Jon Voight and […]

Aug, 30

Brokeback Mountain ***** (2005, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal) – Classic Movie Review 45

‘There are places you can never go back to. There are places you’ll never forget…’ A deliciously moving, overwhelmingly passionate tribute to love and friendship, and an incredibly powerful condemnation of bigotry and hatred, Brokeback […]

Jul, 13

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