Derek Winnert

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The Scarlet Letter * (1995, Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 2948

Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]

Oct, 03

Heaven Is For Real ** (2014, Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Margo Martindale) – Movie Review

Greg Kinnear stars as real-life American small-town preacher and father whose four-year-old son (Connor Corum) nearly dies of appendicitis in hospital but experiences an actual trip to Heaven, where he meets Jesus, a young version of his grandfather and […]

May, 31

The Quick and the Dead *** (1995, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe) – Classic Film Review 1223

Director Sam Raimi’s entertaining, if patchy, very violent 1995 black-comedy Western spoofs the style and themes of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. It stars Sharon Stone as you never saw her before as Ellen, a leather-clad […]

May, 17

Pale Rider **** (1985, Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress) – Classic Movie Review 1169

Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Western Pale Rider impresses with its riffs on the very similar 1953 classic Shane and his own 1973 film High Plains Drifter. The first mainstream Hollywood Western after the catastrophic financial […]

May, 02

The Night of the Hunter ***** (1955, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish) – Classic Movie Review 357

‘This morning we were married, and now you think I’m going to kiss you, hold you, call you my wife!’ – Robert Mitchum. With a beautifully crafted, literate screenplay by James Agee based on the […]

Nov, 03

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