Derek Winnert

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A Hard Day’s Night ***** (1964, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti) – Classic Movie Review 1364

For the Beatles’ first and best full-length movie A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Richard Lester directs a cunning, cheerfully anarchic black-and-white documentary-style musical fantasy spun around a supposedly typical day and a night in the […]

Jun, 27

EDtv *** (1999, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Ellen Degeneres, Martin Landau, Jenna Elfman, Sally Kirkland, Rob Reiner, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 1197

Would you like to be filmed waking up in bed on live TV? That’s exactly what happens to Matthew McConaughey as the dazed and confused Ed, an unambitious video store clerk who is plucked from […]

May, 10

Network ***** (1976, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight) – Classic Movie Review 1,191

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1976 four-Oscar-winner film Network has proved a highly regarded, lasting classic, an American satirical black comedy-drama gem. It has a great script and even greater acting. Network became only the second film to win three of the […]

May, 09

Elstree Calling *** (1930, Hitchcock et al) – Classic Movie Review 1004

Made at the dawn of cinema sound in 1930, this star-studded revue movie, filmed at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, showcases and records for posterity some of the best 30s British musical comedy light entertainment. […]

Mar, 27

Being There ***** (1979, Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart) – Classic Movie Review 819

Director Hal Ashby’s extremely witty and deliciously satirical 1979 black-comedy gives Peter Sellers a wonderful chance to create a serious character in his penultimate film as an illiterate, TV-mad (‘I like to watch’), simple gardener […]

Feb, 09

Pleasantville **** (1998, Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon) – Classic Movie Review 678

Writer-director Gary Ross’s 1998 fantasy comedy is an extremely pleasant, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted comic fable about a boy David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) who are magicked into a TV channel that […]

Jan, 12

To Die For **** (1995, Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Illeana Douglas, Casey Affleck) – Classic Movie Review 346

In 1995 Nicole Kidman landed what was then her best role to date and grabbed it by the throat in Buck Henry’s screenplay based on a novel by Joyce Maynard. Kidman plays Suzanne Stone, a […]

Oct, 31

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