Derek Winnert

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The Purple Rose of Cairo **** (1985, Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 1812

Writer-director Woody Allen’s witty, bitter-sweet 1985 romantic fantasy comedy is a enchanting treat. It won the Bafta award for Best Film and the César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as  the FIPRESCI Prize at […]

Nov, 06

Chasing Amy **** (1997, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee) – Classic Movie Review 1740

This delicious, offbeat 1997 sex comedy from writer-director Kevin Smith, director of Clerks (1994) and Mallrats (1995), is a hilarious and truthful heartbreaker that confirms the strength and vitality of the American independent movie of […]

Oct, 04

Jersey Boys *** (2014, John Lloyd Young, Christopher Walken) – Movie Review

The surprise choice 84-year-old director Clint Eastwood tells the story of four Italian boys from New Jersey’s wrong side of the tracks who became the 1960s pop group The Four Seasons. Eastwood intriguingly turns the long-running hit […]

Jun, 18

The Killers ***** (1946, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 1137

Director Robert Siodmak turns Ernest Hemingway’s short story about a gangster waiting passively for the two professional killers who are coming to get him into an extremely atmospheric, tense and stylish hard-nosed, hard-boiled film noir crime […]

Apr, 22

Don Jon **** (2013, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson) – Movie Review

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is funny and appealing as New Jersey guy called Jon, oddly enough. He is obsessively dedicated to watching porn and masturbating, which he prefers to the real thing, even when the sizzling Scarlett […]

Nov, 05

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