Derek Winnert

Capricorn One **** (1977, Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterson, O J Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Telly Savalas, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 6794

Skillfully written and directed by Peter Hyams (The Presidio), this invigorating 1977 action adventure thriller supposes that NASA’s first manned mission to Mars is actually an American Government hoax simulated in a TV studio. But […]

Mar, 12 · in Reviews

Operation Red Sea [Hong hai xing dong] **** (2018, Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing) – Movie Review

Director Dante Lam [Lin Chaoxian]’s spectacular real-life Chinese battle movie Operation Red Sea is absolutely brilliantly staged at great cost ($70,000,000) and on an epic scale (140 minutes). Despite its positive and up-beat nature, the […]

Mar, 12 · in Reviews

The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793

The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]

Mar, 12

Escape to Athena *** (1979, Roger Moore, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Sonny Bono, Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, Stefanie Powers, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 6792

Director George Pan Cosmatos’s game, high-spirited 1979 British war caper is endearingly daft hokum from Lord Grade just before Raise the Titanic sank his company, ITC, with an all-star cast in a World War Two […]

Mar, 12

Lady Be Good *** (1941, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll, Red Skelton, Virginia O’Brien, Dan Dailey) – Classic Movie Review 6791

The 1941 MGM musical Lady Be Good stars Eleanor Powell, who dances dazzlingly in Busby Berkeley’s spectacular routine ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, and there is Ann Sothern comfort a-plenty too. Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1941 musical film […]

Mar, 12

King Cobra (1999, Pat Morita, Scott Hillenbrand, Casey Fallo, Hoyt Axton, Erik Estrada) – Classic Movie Review 6790

Writer-producer-directors David Hillenbrand and Scott Hillenbrand’s absolutely terrible 1999 monster mutated snake movie, with risible special effects and no sense of its total uselessness as a chiller, is just plain bad, where Anaconda was fun […]

Mar, 12

Mom and Dad ** (2017, Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur) – Movie Review

Writer-director Brian Taylor’s Mom and Dad has its charms, though it is far from charming. To be fair, it doesn’t set out to be charming but nevertheless to charm you with its whacked-out sense (?) […]

Mar, 11

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