Derek Winnert

Loophole *** (1981, Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Robert Morley, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Guard, Alfred Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 4188

Robbing a bank by burrowing through sewers to get to its vaults adds piquancy to this tolerably exciting, old-fashioned 1981 British bank vault heist thriller, with a sturdy star turn from Albert Finney as the […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Looking for Mr Goodbar *** (1977, Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere, Alan Feinstein, Tom Berenger, Priscilla Pointer, LeVar Burton, Brian Dennehy) – Classic Movie Review 4,187

Diane Keaton grabs one of her best opportunities as a Catholic school teacher of deaf children by day who by night takes to the singles bars to pick up men for sex. Diane Keaton may be […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby *** (2006, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan, Pat Hingle, Leslie Bibb, Jane Lynch, Amy Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4185

By 2016, Will Ferrell and John C Reilly have only made two movies together: 2006’s uneven Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and 2008’s riotous Step Brothers. Director Adam McKay’s freewheeling satirical sports comedy Talladega Nights is written […]

Aug, 17

Step Brothers **** (2008, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 4186

Will Ferrell and John C Reilly’s second movie together, 2008’s riotous Step Brothers, follows 2006’s uneven Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. In the admirably silly story by Ferrell, Reilly and director Adam McKay, the duo play middle-aged slacker […]

Aug, 17

Mr & Mrs Bridge **½ (1990, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Sean Leonard, Margaret Welsh, Kyra Sedgwick, Blythe Danner, Simon Callow, Austin Pendleton, Saundra McClain) – Classic Movie Review 4183

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star as an unyielding lawyer Walter Bridge and his pliant wife India Bridge in director James Ivory’s 1990 tale of an upper-class Kansas family between World War One and World […]

Aug, 16

The Couch Trip *** (1988, Dan Aykroyd, Charles Grodin, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 4182

Director Michael Ritchie’s lively and funny 1988 comedy is packed full of amusing lines and scenes in the well-honed screenplay by Steven Kampmann, Will Porter and Sean Stein, based on the novel by Ken Kolb. […]

Aug, 16

Downtime * (1997, Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper) – Classic Movie Review 4184

Paul McGann plays Rob, an ex-police psychiatrist who tries to talk down depressed young woman Chrissy (Susan Lynch), with five-year-old child Jake (Adam Johnston), from chucking herself off the 21st-storey balcony of a Newcastle upon […]

Aug, 16

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