Derek Winnert

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Welcome to LA **** (1976, Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Hutton, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 11,553

Writer-director Alan Rudolph’s confident, revealing and entertaining 1976 ensemble film Welcome to LA is much like those of his mentor, producer Robert Altman, a plotless look at a group of mostly middle-class people, who include […]

Sep, 05

L A Story *** (1991, Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E Grant ) – Classic Movie Review 6898

Director Mick Jackson’s funny and charming 1991 movie finds Steve Martin in romantic comedy mood with a sweet love poem to Los Angeles and his then British wife Victoria Tennant. He must have got it […]

Apr, 08

Beverly Hills Cop III ** (1994, Eddie Murphy, Hector Elizondo, Judge Reinhold, John Saxon, Bronson Pinchot, Theresa Randle, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta) – Classic Movie Review 6651

The scrappy 1994 third Beverly Hills Cop movie is by turns off-puttingly violent and stupidly slapstick, though it is helped along with capable, slick direction from John Landis and the thinly appealing, lightly professional performances. […]

Feb, 04

Dragnet *** (1987, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 6177

Dan Aykroyd stars in and co-writes director Tom Mankiewicz’s amiable 1987 nostalgic film parody of Jack Webb’s great Fifties TV cop show (1951–1959) and 1954 movie Dragnet. Aykroyd plays Sgt Joe Friday’s bumbling nephew, who […]

Nov, 01

Home Again ** (2017, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, Nat Wolff, Pico Alexander, Jon Rudnitsky, Candice Bergen, Lake Bell) – Movie Review 

Reese Witherspoon plays 40-year-old single mom Alice, who has just left her English husband Austen (Michael Sheen) behind in New York and re-located to her late Oscar-winning film director father’s lovely house in Los Angeles. […]

Oct, 01

CHIPS * (2017, Dax Shepard, Michael Peña, Jessica McNamee, Vincent D’Onofrio, Adam Brody, Ryan Hansen, Justin Chatwin, Kristen Bell) – Movie Review

Writer-director Dax Shepard’s cert 15, R-rated 2017 action comedy is a mindless, mirthless and mucky belated TV series movie spin-off. The likeable and hard-working star duo of Dax Shepard and Michael Peña, playing miss-matched cops, could be […]

Mar, 25

Assault on Precinct 13 ***** (1976, Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer) – Classic Movie Review 4354

A film buff’s delight, this nailbiting, non-stop 1976 action thriller about a gang of delinquents besieging a strangely empty Los Angeles police station deservedly helped to catapault its writer-director John Carpenter into the big time, […]

Sep, 12

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