Derek Winnert

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The Big Sick **** (2017, Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano) – Movie Review

The Big Sick is very sweet and very funny, and very well sustained for its epic two hours. Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan are good but Holly Hunter is outstanding. Even the hospital stuff is funny, […]

Jul, 28

Naughty Marietta **** (1935, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 5778

This 1935 movie of the 1910 operetta Victor Herbert (music) and Rida Johnson Young lyrics) gives Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy one of their best opportunities in the first of their series of very jolly, […]

Jul, 18

The Love Parade ***** (1929, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth) – Classic Movie Review 5768

The Love Parade is celebrated as the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald, the first talkie directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and a huge box-office hit that helped save the fortunes of Paramount Pictures. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s […]

Jul, 16

Husbands and Wives ** (1992, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 5728

Writer-director-star Woody Allen’s 1992 mockumentary film comedy-drama report on the state of modern marriage is depressing and disappointing. It has a heavily autobiographical slant that looks embarrassing in the wake of Allen’s family troubles. However, there […]

Jul, 08

The Marrying Kind **** (1952, Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 5701

Director George Cukor’s 1952 Columbia Pictures black and white movie is an engaging bitter-sweet comedy, with laughs and serious undertones, about the marriage breakup of married couple Florence ‘Florrie’ and Chet Keefer (Judy Holliday and […]

Jul, 03

Two for the Road **** (1967, Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 5681

‘If you want to be a duchess, be a duchess. If you want to make love, hat’s off.’ – Mark Wallace (Albert Finney). Producer-director Stanley Donen’s seemingly lightweight 1967 romantic comedy Two for the Road […]

Jun, 28

Belle de Jour ***** (1967, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti) – Classic Movie Review 5658

Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel and screen-writer Jean-Claude Carrière rework the novel by Joseph Kessel and deliver one of Buñuel’s undoubted masterwork movies in this sleek and provocative 1967 drama. Catherine Deneuve is on dazzling form […]

Jun, 24

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