Derek Winnert

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Dolores Claiborne **** (1995, Kathy Bates, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, David Strathairn, Eric Bogosian, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 886

Director Taylor Hackford employs the admirable Kathy Bates for another ace Stephen King adaptation, after her Oscar-winning performance in Misery (1990). Bates kicks this 1995 movie into top gear as Dolores Claiborne, a Maine matron […]

Mar, 09

Snow Falling on Cedars **** (1999, Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow, Yûki Kudô, Rick Yune, James Cromwell, James Rebhorn) – Classic Movie Review 884

Immediately after World War Two, in an American Pacific Northwest small town, the discovery of the death of a white fisherman at sea and the subsequent murder trial of his neighbour, a Japanese-American fisherman (Rick […]

Mar, 07

The Mothman Prophecies *** (2002, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Alan Bates, Debra Messing) – Classic Movie Review 853

Beware The Mothman! – a blinding vision with glaring red eyes who warns of disasters. Richard Gere stars as reporter John Klein, whose wife Mary (Debra Messing) sees The Mothman just before a fatal car crash. […]

Mar, 01

In and Out [In & Out] *** (1997, Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck) – Classic Movie Review 763

Director Frank Oz’s widely popular, gay-friendly 1997 movie is a good-natured but shaky comedy about an American mid-western small-town teacher (Kevin Kline), about to be married to his childhood sweetheart (Joan Cusack), who is outed as […]

Jan, 28

The Falcon Takes Over **** (1942, George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Helen Gilbert, Edward Gargan, Ward Bond, Hans Conried, Turhan Bey) – Classic Movie Review 741

George Sanders stars in 1942 in a highspot in Michael Arlen’s débonair detective Falcon series, unexpectedly based on Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, and the first film of the great writer’s classic hardboiled crime thriller […]

Jan, 24

Superman *** (1978, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando) – Classic Movie Review 522

Though ambitious, costly, awesome-looking and entertaining, director Richard Donner’s 1978 first film in the original four-part Superman saga is also unfortunately pompous, pretentious and patchy. The main assets are: (1) the late, great Christopher Reeve […]

Dec, 14

Zoolander **** (2001, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell) – Classic Movie Review 487

As unlikely rival supermodels, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson light up Zoolander (2001), a hilarious spoof on the excesses of the male-model and fashion worlds. That funny bloke Ben Stiller directs as well as stars […]

Dec, 08

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