Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "female protagonist"

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Raising Helen *** (2004, Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin, Hayden Panettiere, Felicity Huffman, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 4056

Kate Hudson plays a young woman who becomes the guardian of her sister and brother-in-law three children (Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin) after the couple are killed in a car accident. Director Garry Marshall treads carefully in this enjoyable 2004 laughter and tears […]

Jul, 20

Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051

Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]

Jul, 19

Cecil B DeMented **½ (2000, Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Maggie Gyllenhall) – Classic Movie Review 4005

Writer-director John Waters’s suitably demented 2000 comedy stars Stephen Dorff as guerrilla film director Cecil B DeMented. As usual with Waters, it is set in his home town of Baltimore. DeMented and his band of cinema revolutionaries […]

Jul, 12

Black Swan **** (2010, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder) – Classic Movie Review 3973

On-fire Natalie Portman won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Best Actress as Best Actress for her startling performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 thriller. Both the performance and the film are an impressive tour-de-force. Portman enjoys […]

Jul, 04

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

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 *** (2011, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner) – Classic Movie Review 3835

The final episode of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga is split into two movies, as director Bill Condon’s 2011 Part 1 story The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 begins with Kristen Stewart’s Bella now a vampire learning […]

Jun, 11

Morning Glory ***½ (1933, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 3420

Director Lowell Sherman’s 1933 romantic drama stars the 26-year-old Katharine Hepburn, who won her first Oscar as Eva Lovelace, a starry-eyed, naively innocent, aspiring actress who arrives in Manhattan as a Broadway babe trying to be […]

Feb, 27

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