Derek Winnert

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Throw Momma from the Train **** (1987, Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist, Kate Mulgrew, Annie Ross, Rob Reiner, Bruce Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 4935

Director/ star Danny DeVito’s gleefully entertaining 1987 directorial feature film debut is yet another raid on the work of Alfred Hitchcock. This time it is a bright and breezy black comedy about a student in […]

Jan, 25

Some Came Running **** (1958, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates) – Classic Movie Review 4759

There is assured acting all round by a strong cast in director Vincente Minnelli’s powerful and impressive 1958 MGM movie of James Jones’s bestseller dissecting unfulfilled lives in a small Mid-West American town in the […]

Dec, 10

Adam **** (2009, Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison) – Classic Movie Review 4631

Hugh’s a pretty boy then? Stoke-on-Trent actor Hugh Dancy’s sweet kind of good looks have set him on the profitable path of Hollywood romances and romcoms like Ella Enchanted, The Jane Austen Book Club and […]

Nov, 10

The Fencer **** (2015, Märt Avandi, Lembit Ulfsak, Kirill Käro, Joonas Koff, Liisa Koppel) – Movie Review

This sweet and satisfying, truthful and truly moving 2015 Finnish Estonian drama plays like a sword-based, serious-minded, real-life version of Dead Poets Society or School of Rock. Director’s Klaus Härö’s film is incredibly good, never taking a false […]

Oct, 02

Lost Souls ** (2001, Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt, Philip Baker Hall and Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 4364

We know we must be in trouble in 2001 if the world’s fate scarily rests on the tiny narrow shoulders of Winona Ryder, who battles with her baffling miscasting as a religious fanatic convinced that a […]

Sep, 13

Fast Times at Ridgemont High [Fast Times] **** (1982, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 4352

This often funny and fresh 1982 American high school comedy marks the screen-writing debut of Cameron Crowe, who went to write and direct the 1996 hit Jerry Maguire. It is a busy and engaging, if plotless, […]

Sep, 12

Rachel, Rachel **** (1968, Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, James Olson, Kate Harrington) – Classic Movie Review 4280

Producer Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward make an excellent film team as the director and star of this sensitive 1968 movie based on the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. In […]

Sep, 01

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