Derek Winnert

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The Survivors ** (1983, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed) – Movie Review 4170

The young, frenzied ball of fire comic Robin Williams (just 32) works well in his manic performance with the contrasting laid-back style of the laconic Walter Matthau in director Michael Ritchie’s haphazard, far-out 1983 darkly […]

Aug, 14

White Christmas **** (1954, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen) – Classic Movie Review 2,207

  The entertaining musical film White Christmas was 1954’s most successful film and is now arguably the most famous Christmas movie of them all. Director Michael Curtiz’s entertaining 1954 musical White Christmas is a remake […]

Feb, 23

Hope Springs ** (2003, Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 1982

Director Mark Herman’s funny-in-places 2003 comedy stars Colin Firth as sad, lovelorn British artist Colin Ware who, after being dumped by his fiancée in the UK, goes to start over in the USA where he holes up in […]

Dec, 20

Nothing Sacred ***** (1937, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 1,951

The delightful 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred stars Carole Lombard as the supposedly sick Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont, and Fredric March as a sleazy New York reporter creating sob stories out of her […]

Dec, 13

Mr Deeds Goes to Town ***** (1936, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, Walter Catlett, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1225

Director Frank Capra was on a roll in 1936, winning his second Best Director Oscar for one of his most beloved movies, the 1936 Mr Deeds Goes to Town, now regarded as an all-time Hollywood […]

May, 17

State and Main (2000, William C Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Film Review 1122

Writer-director David Mamet’s known for his rather egg-heady plays and movies, but here in 2000 he tackles an easy-going, old-style satire of film-making, film folk and the movie business, which is far more entertaining than penetrating or […]

Apr, 20

What Lies Beneath (2000, Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford) – Classic Film Review 1109

Director Robert Zemeckis’s 2000 thriller stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a New England middle-aged housewife who is happily married to well-to-do genetics professor Harrison Ford. And they really seem to have an idyllic life in their […]

Apr, 18

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