Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay"

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The Big Short **** (2015, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Adam McKay’s dynamic and janglingly vibrating movie tells three separate but parallel true stories of the America mortgage housing crisis of 2005 like it’s a near cousin of The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s […]

Jan, 14

Midnight Express **** (1978, Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paul L Smith, Norbert Weisser, Mike Kellin) – Classic Movie Review 2073

Director Alan Parker’s horrific double Oscar-winning 1978 real-life drama of courage and the will to survive stars Brad Davis, who digs deep into his role of a lifetime as the young American college student Billy […]

Jan, 12

Room at the Top **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 1483

Director Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Its star Laurence Harvey may […]

Jul, 27

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