Derek Winnert

All Night Long *** (1981, Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 4072

Director Jean-Claude Tramont’s quirky 1981 comedy stars Gene Hackman as a man called George Dupler who is having a midlife crisis. He is a married executive who loses his temper and is relegated to being manager […]

Jul, 24 · in Uncategorized

The Natural **** (1984, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger and Barbara Hershey, Wilford Brimley, Robert Prosky) – Classic Movie Review 4071

Still in his golden boy era, Robert Redford stars as captain of the all-star actor team that director Barry Levinson has recruited for his 1984 comedic and mystical sports drama fable about a Thirties baseball […]

Jul, 24 · in Uncategorized

The Escape Artist *** (1982, Raul Julia, Griffin O’Neal, Desi Arnaz, Joan Hackett, Gabriel Dell) – Classic Movie Review 4070

Director Caleb Deschanel’s nicely offbeat 1982 children’s movie follow-up to the 1979 The Black Stallion stars Ryan O’Neal’s son Griffin, who makes an appealing acting début in this attractively oddball saga of a teenage amateur […]

Jul, 23

The Black Stallion **** (1979, Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Hoyt Axton) – Classic Movie Review 4069

Executive producer Francis Coppola supervises director Carroll Ballard’s sumptuous 1979 film version of Walter Farley’s 1941 children’s classic novel about a boy’s adventures with the spirited Arab horse he saves from a shipwreck and takes […]

Jul, 23

The Indian in the Cupboard **½ (1995, Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 4068

Director Frank Oz’s 1993 children’s movie boasts a screenplay by Melissa Mathison, the writer of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and adapter of The BFG (2016). In the story, a nine-year-old boy called Omri (Hal Scardino) is […]

Jul, 23

Star Trek Beyond ***½ (2016, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Idris Elba) – Movie Review

The 13th Star Trek movie is the third reboot movie, and the first without its mastermind as director, J J Abrams, who has headed off to Star Wars. It is directed by action director Justin Lin, maker […]

Jul, 23

Private Hell 36 *** (1954, Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone, Dabbs Greer) – Classic Movie Review 4067

Director Don Siegel’s resolute and stalwart 1954 thriller tells the story of two disgruntled police officers Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham (Steve Cochran, Howard Duff), who are on the trail of tempting stolen money. A $50 […]

Jul, 23

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