Derek Winnert

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Obsession *** (1976, Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow) – Classic Movie Review 2188

For director Brian De Palma’s teasing and intriguing 1976 mystery thriller, writer Paul Schrader bases his screenplay on the movie buff’s story he concocted with De Palma. Schrader and De Palma no doubt intend an homage […]

Feb, 18

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

Kinsey **** (2004, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt) – Classic Movie Review 1,999

Writer-director Bill Condon’s 2004 American biographical drama film Kinsey stars Liam Neeson, who gives a sterling performance as US academic and sex scientist Dr Alfred Kinsey, who became America’s most notorious man through his pioneering studies […]

Dec, 24

The Homesman **** (2014, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

Hilary Swank stars as the plain, pious, independent-minded spinster farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, who volunteers to transport three women driven insane by pioneer life across country by covered wagon in the 1850s, when life is nasty, […]

Nov, 19

Orange County *** (2002, Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk) – Classic Movie Review 1743

Colin Hanks (son of Tom) proves a chip off the old block as an expert comedy performer, playing Shaun Brumder, a California high school surfer kid who dreams of going to Stanford University to quit […]

Oct, 04

Footloose **** (1984, Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer) – Classic Movie Review 1497

Director Herbert Ross’s 1984 musical-drama movie Footloose has proved an enduring classic. It stars the 26-year-old Kevin Bacon at his young peak in the Eighties in one of his most fondly remembered roles as Ren McCormack, an upbeat, […]

Jul, 30

Memphis Belle *** (1990, Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, Sean Astin) – Classic Movie Review 1286

Producer David Puttnam and director Michael Caton-Jones’s honourable British-made 1990 film was inspired by Hollywood director William Wyler’s remarkable 1943 World War II documentary The Memphis Belle (made for the War Activities Commission) about a young […]

Jun, 03

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