Derek Winnert

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The Story of Temple Drake *** (1933, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue) – Classic Movie Review 11,927

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1933 controversial American pre-Code drama film The Story of Temple Drake stars Miriam Hopkins as the titular character. The Catholic League of Decency set off a successful censorship campaign on Hollywood after Paramount […]

Feb, 12

Tess **** (1979, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4407

Co-writer/ director Roman Polanski delivers a rich, faithful, spirited and satisfying 1979 film version of the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Tess was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture and went […]

Sep, 24

Return to Sender *** (2015, Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Nolte, Illeana Douglas, Rumer Willis, Scout Taylor-Compton) – Movie Review

Rosamund Pike is back in Gone Girl mode in director Fouad Mikati’s intriguing thriller, as a nurse American small town who is brutally raped by a boy (Shiloh Fernandez) who turns up at her home just […]

May, 21

Heaven & Earth **** (1993, Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, Debbie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 2075

Writer-director Oliver Stone’s honourable, bold and brave 1993 conclusion to his Vietnam trilogy started by Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July sees him trying to view to see conflict from the Vietnamese side […]

Jan, 12

A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015

Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]

Mar, 29

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