Derek Winnert

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Speaking Parts *** (1989, Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose) – Classic Movie Review 11,184

‘Love – Passion – Obsession’ – Speaking Parts (1989), a film by Atom Egoyan…  The celebrated Canadian Armenian writer/ producer/ director Atom Egoyan’s 1989 Canadian romantic drama film Speaking Parts stars Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian and […]

May, 08

Against the Ropes ** (2004, Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S Dutton) – Classic Movie Review 10,941

Director Charles S Dutton’s 2004 drama Against the Ropes stars Meg Ryan, who battles to get her career off the ropes as a real-life go-getting promoter, Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who storms […]

Feb, 20

Last Night *** (1998, Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 8095

Writer-director Don McKellar’s 1998 drama Last Night is an incisive, cleverly done and capably acted Canadian oddity about a group of people gathering to face the end of the world that they are expecting immediately […]

Feb, 05

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ***** (2017, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage) – Movie Review 

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell give dazzlingly brilliant performances in writer-director Martin McDonagh’s supremely dark and dangerous black comedy crime drama. McDonagh sure does like living dangerously, as he previously showed in In Bruges (2008) and Seven […]

Oct, 15

Someone’s Watching Me! **** (1978, Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, James Murtaugh) – Classic Movie Review 6009

Writer-director John Carpenter 1978 classic TV movie thriller is in the best Alfred Hitchcock vein. It is suspensefully directed with a highly attractive, gutsy performance from Lauren Hutton as Leigh Michaels, a TV news director […]

Sep, 09

Boys on the Side *** (1995, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughy, James Remar, Billy Wirth) – Classic Movie Review 5826

Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore star as three very different women who share a cross-country car trip to escape their lousy lives and rotten menfolk and/or emotional vacuums in a big heartwarming, bitter-sweet […]

Jul, 29

It Runs in the Family *** (2003, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Michelle Monaghan, Rory Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 5094

The long-awaited meeting of Michael Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas on film had to wait till Kirk was 87 and had suffered a major stroke. Still, better late than never. In director Fred Schepisi’s […]

Mar, 03

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