Derek Winnert

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Sidewalks of New York *** (2001, Edward Burns, Heather Graham, Rosario Dawson, Stanley Tucci, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 1610

Writer/co-producer Edward Burns directs this sprightly 2001 Woody Allen-style Manhattan relationship movie following the interlocking lives and loves of half a dozen New Yorkers. Burns also stars as Tommy, a TV producer who has a fling […]

Aug, 30

Two Weeks Notice *** (2002, Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1605

Writer-director Marc Lawrence’s 2002 romcom finds an excellent star pair in Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant, who go through their deliciously familiar acts as a daffy liberal lawyer and the floppy-haired property developer who hires […]

Aug, 30

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

A Perfect Plan ** (2012, Diane Kruger, Dany Boon) – Movie Review

Director Pascal Chaumeil’s broad but pleasant French romcom can at least boast a fresh and interesting premise. An entire family is apparently cursed for ever that all its members find their first marriages end in divorce. Diane Kruger plays […]

Jun, 13

The Awful Truth ***** (1937, Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 1247

Producer/director Leo McCarey won the 1938 Oscar as Best Director for the awfully fast and funny screwball comedy The Awful Truth, which was nominated for six Academy awards. Irene Dunne kicks up a storm in […]

May, 24

Intolerable Cruelty *** (2003, George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones) – Classic Movie Review 1239

Gorgeous George Clooney is the making of the Coen Brothers’ entertaining 2003 old-style Hollywood romantic comedy, but with a deliciously dark, cynical edge. The Coen Brothers dark and cynical? That’s a weird one! Clooney plays […]

May, 22

Celebrity *** (1998, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Joe Mantegna, Winona Ryder, Charlize Theron, Hank Azario, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 1037

Celebrity has to be counted a bit of an intriguing flop in 1998 from writer-director Woody Allen (who doesn’t appear, which is always bad news). Kenneth Branagh is miscast and struggling in what amounts to […]

Apr, 02

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