Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Howard Hughes"

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Melvin and Howard **** (1980, Paul LeMat, Jason Robards Jr, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 5350

Bo Goldman received two Academy Awards for his screenplays of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Melvin and Howard (1980).  Director Jonathan Demme’s highly delightful, double Oscar-winning 1980 comedy film Melvin and Howard […]

Apr, 27

Rules Don’t Apply **** (2016, Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich) – Movie Review

Warren Beatty’s polished and thoroughly entertaining Hollywood romantic biographical drama stars Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich as a strict Christian aspiring young actress and her earnest, ambitious young driver, both trying to work round the […]

Apr, 21

F for Fake **** (1973, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 2459

Orson Welles’s entertaining free-form documentary about fraud and fakery sees him reflecting on truth and illusion in an insubstantial and jokey but resourceful and witty artifice that uses a re-edited TV documentary about a famous […]

May, 06

Underwater! *** (1955, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 2109

Director John Sturges’s 1955 skin-diving adventure movie for the reclusive billionaire producer and RKO studio boss Howard Hughes, is designed to exhibit Hughes’s busty protégée film star Jane Russell (The Outlaw) paddling around in the […]

Jan, 24

The Aviator *** (2004, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 592

Director Martin Scorsese’s patchy, rambling and overlong 2004 biopic of legendary film director and plane and movie mogul Howard Hughes is sometimes  hard work, and nothing new emerges. But it re-tells a story most people won’t know […]

Dec, 30

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