Derek Winnert

Housewife * (1934, George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday) – Classic Movie Review 6900

Director Alfred E Green’s shaky, corny and unconvincing 1934 melodrama of romantic rivalry stars Bette Davis as blonde bombshell advertising copywriter Patricia Berkeley, who tries to vamp her co-worker and old lover William ‘Bill’ Reynolds […]

Apr, 08 · in Uncategorized

HouseSitter *** (1992, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat, Peter MacNicol) – Classic Movie Review 6899

Director Frank Oz’s 1992 fantasy romantic comedy HouseSitter is uneven, but it is always an amiable and inoffensive entertainment, and in its best stretches it is very funny. Steve Martin stars as Newton Davis, a […]

Apr, 08 · in Uncategorized

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

All of Me *** (1984, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant) – Classic Movie Review 6897

Director Carl Reiner’s enjoyable 1984 comedy stars a hilarious Steve Martin, who gives all of himself in this welcome crazy comedy about Roger Cobb (Martin), a nice lawyer whose body is taken over by the […]

Apr, 08

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid *** (1982, Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Reni Santoni, George Gaynes) – Classic Movie Review 6896

Director Carl Reiner’s enjoyable 1983 black and white parody movie stars Steve Martin in a fun, likeable modern-day film noir spoof comedy in which detective Rigby Reardon (Martin) is sent on a chase by sexy […]

Apr, 07

The Man with Two Brains *** (1983, Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 6895

Director Carl Reiner’s likeable 1983 comedy stars Steve Martin in a rough but ready zany horror spoof about unhappily married neurosurgeon Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr (Martin)’s love affair with a woman’s talking brain (voice of Sissy Spacek) that […]

Apr, 07

The Jerk *** (1979, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Jackie Mason) – Classic Movie Review 6894

‘He was a poor black sharecropper’s son who never dreamed he was adopted. A rags to riches to rags story.’ Director Carl Reiner’s 1979 comedy The Jerk stars Steve Martin in his broad, uneasy first […]

Apr, 07

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