Derek Winnert

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean **** (1982, Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1760

  Director Robert Altman’s stupendous 1982 film is the notable first of his fertile adaptations of stage plays. He makes a superb job of the stage to screen transfer of Ed Graczyk’s play about a group of […]

Oct, 11

Frailty **** (2001, Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matthew O’Leary, Jeremy Sumpter) – Classic Movie Review 1195

Director Bill Paxton’s twisty, sweaty-palm 2001 psychological horror thriller Frailty is extraordinary. Matthew McConaughey stars as Fenton Meiks, who walks into the Dallas, Texas, office of FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) one night and […]

May, 10

The Newton Boys (1998, Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Film Review 1199

The real-life story of 1920s Uvalde, Texas bank-robbing brothers (Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D’Onofrio) who knock over more than 80 banks across the US and into Canada, where their attempt to rob […]

May, 10

Secondhand Lions **** (2003, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 1166

Writer-director Tim McCanlies’s 2003 Walt Disney movie stars The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment, who is superb as introverted young Walter, a kid sent off by his mom to live with his eccentric, story-telling great […]

May, 02

All the Pretty Horses *** (2000, Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick, Lucas Black, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 898

Billy Bob Thornton’s 2000 Western film All the Pretty Horses is astonishingly high, wide and handsome, adapting Cormac McCarthy’s highly regarded 1992 novel. Matt Damon and Henry Thomas play Texan misfit cowboys who travel to […]

Mar, 11

Hombre **** (1967, Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Barbara Rush, Frank Silvera, Martin Balsam, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 860

Director Martin Ritt’s 1967 Western is a tense, intelligent, suspenseful movie, only maybe a little bit too obviously message-strewn for its own good. It reunites the star, the director, the writers and cinematographer of the 1963 triumph […]

Mar, 02

Slacker **** (1991, Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine) – Classic Movie Review 859

Writer-producer-director Richard Linklater’s clever, warmly regarded 1991 no-budget ($23,000, apparently) cult comedy hit focuses on some weird and wacky characters during a day in the life of Austin, Texas. The springboard for Linklater’s sparkling career, Slacker has […]

Mar, 02

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