Derek Winnert

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What a Way to Go! * (1964, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Cummings, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Paul Newman) – Classic Movie Review 10,279

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1964 compendium black comedy What a Way to Go! stars Shirley MacLaine as a four-time widow. Witty Broadway authors Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin’ in the Rain) write the screenplay, based […]

Sep, 08

Judith ** (1966, Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,152

Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries after playing a Jewish woman in Judith (1966). Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 drama Judith [Conflict] stars Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins but does not have much […]

Aug, 09

First Reformed ***** (2017, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer) – Movie Review

Ethan Hawke gives a brilliant performance First Reformed (2017) – it must be his best so far – as the Reverend Holler, the already troubled, anguished priest of a historic tourist church with no congregation in upstate […]

May, 31

The Hireling **** (1973, Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan, Elizabeth Sellars, Caroline Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 6274

L P Hartley’s class-conscious novel set in 1923 about a chauffeur, Steven Ledbetter (Robert Shaw), who befriends and falls for his posh, disturbed mistress Lady Franklin (Sarah Miles) may be a trifle thin and sedate as cinema. […]

Nov, 20

Moonlight and Valentino ** (1995, Elizabeth Perkins, Whoopi Goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathleen Turner, Jon Bon Jovi) – Classic Movie Review 3906

Elizabeth Perkins stars as a college poetry professor, whose husband is killed in a jogging accident, in this emotional romantic drama, based on a play by Ellen Simon. Perkins has a support system of friends […]

Jun, 23

Love Is Strange **** (2014, John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina are inspired to give perhaps their best ever acting in co-writer-director Ira Sachs’s haunting and moving drama. Adorable, so sweet and subtle and touching, Love Is Strange really gets to you. Lithgow […]

Jan, 15

Starman ****½ (1984, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 2043

Director John Carpenter delivers a stupendous, electrifying 1984 adult sci-fi fairy tale that’s tense, touching and thrilling throughout. Bruce A Evans, Raynold Gideon and Dean Reisner’s screenplay follows the story of the titular alien Starman, […]

Jan, 03

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