Derek Winnert

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Trainwreck **** (2015, Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Tilda Swinton) – Movie Review

Amy Schumer wrecks the landscape with her naughty but nice laughs. Amy Schumer plays Amy, a commitment-phobic woman brought up by her bad dad to believe that monogamy isn’t realistic. In between being as promiscuous […]

Jul, 08

Psycho * (1998, Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, William H Macy, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2301

Director Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic is a pointless lost cause. Van Sant won the 1999 Razzie award for Worst Director and the film won the Razzie for Worst […]

Mar, 22

The Dark Mirror **** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2273

Robert Siodmak directs one of Hollywood’s better Forties psychological film noir thrillers in 1946. It finds Olivia de Havilland on rousing form, enjoying herself enormously in two roles as identical twins Terry and Ruth Collins, one […]

Mar, 16

You Only Live Once ***** (1937, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, William Gargan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 2176

Fritz Lang’s splendid 1937 film noir crime melodrama thriller You Only Live Once is one of his best, most distinguished movies. It stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney and is set in Depression-hit America. Director […]

Feb, 14

Blood Work ** (2002, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston) – Classic Movie Review 1827

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood pairs with screen writer Brian Helgeland, the highly skilled and talented writer of L.A. Confidential, for this wearily convoluted 2002 thriller about Terry McCaleb, a retired FBI profiler (Eastwood), with a heart […]

Nov, 10

Hideous Kinky *** (1998, Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui) – Classic Movie Review 1694

Director Gilles MacKinnon’s 1998 drama stars an excellent Kate Winslet, who impresses as Julia, an English hippy mother who in 1972 travels with her two young daughters, 7 and 5, to Morocco. There they have […]

Sep, 20

Holiday **** (1938, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1,259

George Cukor’s 1938 classic romantic comedy film Holiday is the perfect example of the Hollywood screwball comedy of remarriage that its stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant specialised in and made their own. Director George […]

May, 26

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