Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "friendship"

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The Disaster Artist ***½ (2017, Dave Franco, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Ari Graynor, Paul Scheer, Alison Brie) – Movie Review

What are people saying about The Disaster Artist? I will tell you. They are saying it is funny, not hysterical, except occasionally, but definitely funny. The casting is canny – real-life famous actor brothers playing a […]

Dec, 02

The Gorgeous Hussy ** (1936, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6339

Director Clarence Brown’s shaky 1936 historical drama is notable for the romantic teaming of two of MGM’s finest, Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor, as hussy innkeeper’s daughter Peggy O’Neal Eaton and the US navy lieutenant she […]

Dec, 01

Fear Eats the Soul [Angst Essen Seele Auf] ***** (1973, Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Barbara Valentin) – Classic Movie Review 6198

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 drama is one of his greatest films, a straightforward account of an unlikely love affair between a 60-year-old Munich charlady (the splendid Brigitte Mira) and a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant worker […]

Nov, 06

Heaven Knows, Mr Allison **** (1957, Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 6,166

John Huston’s popular 1957 drama movie Heaven Knows, Mr Allison teams Robert Mitchum as a laconic US marine corporal with Deborah Kerr as a nun, stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean in 1944. Co-writer/ […]

Oct, 31

Joe ** (1970, Peter Boyle, Susan Sarandon, Patrick McDermott, Dennis Patrick, Audrey Caire) – Classic Movie Review 6162

Peter Boyle gives a remarkable performance of repellent power as Joe Curran, in director John G Avildsen’s revolting, nasty-toned 1970 right-wing tract that was a huge hit against the apparent peace-and-love mood of the times […]

Oct, 30

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant [Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant ] ***** (1975, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann) – Classic Movie Review 6056

Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s weird though utterly compelling 1972 German film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant about love, power and lesbian passions is one of his finest movies, now a much acclaimed classic. […]

Oct, 03

A Separate Peace *** (1972, John Heyl, Parker Stevenson, William Roerick) – Classic Movie Review 5972

Larry Pearce’s 1972 coming-of-age drama film A Separate Peace films the 1959 novel by John Knowles that tells the delicate, trail-blazing tale of the special friendship of two schoolboy roomies (John Heyl, Parker Stevenson) in […]

Aug, 26

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