Derek Winnert

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Juno **** (2007, Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner) – Classic Movie Review 541

A movie so funny and feel good you want to give it a big hug, this offbeat comedy just couldn’t be more charming, more amusing or sweeter. A little independent film that cost around $7million, […]

Dec, 16

Mystic River ***** (2003, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 468

Sean Penn won a well-deserved best actor Oscar as Jimmy Markum, a Boston ex-con who takes the law into his own hands when he thinks one of his childhood buddies, Dave Boyle, has murdered his teenage […]

Dec, 04

The Skulls *** (2000, Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald, Steve Harris, William Petersen, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 466

Joshua Jackson stars as Luke McNamara, a naive but ambitious, upwardly mobile college senior student from a working class background, aiming to gain acceptance into Harvard Law. He is persuaded to join a posh, elitist college secret […]

Dec, 02

Suspicion ***** (1941, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 441

Alfred Hitchcock’s richly enjoyable and likeable 1941 thriller Suspicion (1941) is a sweaty exercise in anxiety. Both stars Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine are at the peak of their career, powers and attraction. In the […]

Nov, 23

A Home at the End of the World **** (2004, Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Robin Wright, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 431

Directed by Michael Mayer in 2004, this is another exquisite, heart-breaking work from the author of The Hours. Sadly, it didn’t achieve anything like its respect or its popularity, despite its release by a major […]

Nov, 20

Love Actually *** (2003, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 369

The British Prime Minister romancing his Downing Street tea lady? Yes actually! Clever writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings) looks – with great affection and optimism – at the state of love in Britain in 2003, […]

Nov, 06

Stage Fright **** (1950, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Patricia Hitchcock) – Classic Movie Review 326

Alfred Hitchcock recalls his 1950 British thriller film Stage Fright: ‘Several of the reviewers mentioned Selwyn Jepson’s novel Man Running might make a good Hitchcock picture and I, like an idiot, believed them.’ ‘Love held […]

Oct, 26

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