Derek Winnert

Reviews

Capone ** (1975, Ben Gazzara, Susan Blakely, Harry Guardino, John Cassavetes, John Davis Chandler, Frank Campanella, Sylvester Stallone) – Classic Movie Review 10,626

Director Steve Carver’s and producer Roger Corman’s 1975 crime thriller biopic Capone stars as Al Capone Ben Gazzara, who chews on his cigar (but not the scenery this time) and chomps out his words, giving […]

Dec, 04

Air America * (1990, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 10,625

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1990 film Air America stars Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr as maverick veteran pilot Gene Ryack (Gibson) and cheeky young upstart Billy Covington (Downey Jr), who work together as renegade aviators […]

Dec, 04

Terror Train *** (1980, Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner) – Classic Movie Review 10,624

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s debut is the 1980 Canadian horror thriller Terror Train, a cultish, above-average stalk and slash movie, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis – then the cinema’s best screamer since Fay Wray – as one […]

Dec, 03

The Pursuit of D B Cooper *** (1981, Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold) – Classic Movie Review 10,623

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1981 film The Pursuit of D B Cooper is based on the 1980 book Free Fall: A Novel by J D Reed and stars Robert Duvall as relentless insurance sleuth Bill Gruen, […]

Dec, 03

The Fearmakers *** (1958, Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Mel Tormé, Marilee Earle, Veda Ann Borg, Kelly Thordsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,621

‘MASTERS OF FEAR! MASTERS OF INTRIGUE! MERCHANTS OF MURDER!’ Director Jacques Tourneur’s anti-Communist 1958 black and white film noir crime thriller The Fearmakers stars Dana Andrews as brainwashed Korean War veteran Alan Eaton, who comes […]

Dec, 03

Oscar *** (1991, Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri, Kirk Douglas, Vincent Spano, Marisa Tomei, Tim Curry, Don Ameche, Eddie Bracken, Linda Gray) – Classic Movie Review 10,620

Director John Landis’s likeable 1991 screwball crime comedy Oscar stars Sylvester Stallone as Angelo ‘Snaps’ Provolone, an Italian mobster who is asked by his young accountant (Vincent Spano) for his daughter’s hand in this frantic […]

Dec, 02

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992, Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees) – Classic Movie Review 10,619

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s triple Razzie Award-winning 1992 action comedy Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot is a total failure from Sylvester Stallone in another attempt to perfect his comedy technique (after the 1991 Oscar). He […]

Dec, 02

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