Derek Winnert

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The United States of Leland **** (2003, Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Kevin Spacey, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Michelle Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6561

Don Cheadle plays Pearl Madison, a juvenile detention centre jail teacher who probes the mystery of just why the teenage boy Leland (Ryan Gosling) killed his ex-girlfriend’s special needs disabled kid brother. Writer-director Matthew Ryan […]

Jan, 15

Hammett **** (1982, Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner) – Classic Movie Review 6,524

Wim Wenders’s eye-catching and very worthy 1982 neo noir film homage to the crime thriller and its great writer Dashiell Hammett has the tasteful stamp of its producer Francis Ford Coppola all over it. Coppola […]

Jan, 06

Another Woman **** (1988, Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner, Gene Hackman, Betty Buckley, John Houseman, Sandy Dennis, David Ogden Stiers, Philip Bosco, Harris Yulin) – Classic Movie Review 6466

Gena Rowlands is superb as a middle-aged college professor reassessing her life, in Woody Allen’s 1988 serious relationships drama film Another Woman. Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1988 serious relationships drama film Another Woman stars Gena Rowlands who […]

Dec, 24

The Last Time I Saw Paris **½ (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Roger Moore, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor) – Classic Movie Review 6412

F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 semi-autobiographical short story of Americans in Paris, Babylon Revisited, makes a loose starting point basis for an interesting though shaky 1954 movie under Richard Brooks’s direction. Its setting is shifted from […]

Dec, 15

The Whip Hand * (1951, Elliott Reid, Carla Balenda, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Otto Waldis, Michael Steele, Laurene Tuttle) – Classic Movie Review 6247

This tale about Communists holed up in a New England town and plotting to take over the US via germ warfare was originally a story about Adolf Hitler hiding in a town after the war, […]

Nov, 13

Spinout ** (1966, Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Carl Betz, Cecil Kellaway, Will Hutchins, Una Merkel, Deborah Walley, Diane McBain) – Classic Movie Review 6239

Director Norman Taurog’s 1966 romantic comedy musical stars Elvis Presley as a band singing, gal-chasing racing driver called Mike McCoy. He may be chasing girls, but three women are after him this time: his band’s drummer […]

Nov, 13

Two or Three Things I Know About Her… [2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle] *** (1967, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret) – Classic Movie Review 6064

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 French movie is typical mid-period Godard, not from his top drawer and already just past his glorious prime. Marina Vlady stars as a married Paris suburban wife Juliette, living with her […]

Oct, 09

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