Derek Winnert

Beaches **** (1988, Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan) – Classic Movie Review 4060

Director Garry Marshall’s 1988 movie is all about the ups and downs of a lifetime’s friendship between two women, which makes a refreshing change, especially with these stars. It was hugely popular among female audiences […]

Jul, 21 · in Reviews

Private Benjamin **** (1980, Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 4,059

The 1980 hit military cadet training comedy film Private Benjamin stars Goldie Hawn as Judy Benjamin, a daffy rich girl who enlists in the US Army. Director Howard Zieff’s 1980 hit military cadet training comedy […]

Jul, 21 · in Reviews

Cactus Flower *** (1969, Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 4058

Director Gene Saks turns Abe Burrows’s Broadway comedy into this flimsy, contrived and creaky but still reasonably pleasing, genial and amusing 1969 movie, boosted by appearances by three of the cinema’s brightest stars. Ingrid Bergman […]

Jul, 20

Overboard **** (1987, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Roddy McDowall, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 4057

At the risk of going overboard, director Garry Marshall’s sparkling 1987 comedy is one of Goldie Hawn’s funniest movies. The star lights up the screen with her comic charisma as an arrogant rich bitch who […]

Jul, 20

Raising Helen *** (2004, Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin, Hayden Panettiere, Felicity Huffman, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 4056

Kate Hudson plays a young woman who becomes the guardian of her sister and brother-in-law three children (Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin) after the couple are killed in a car accident. Director Garry Marshall treads carefully in this enjoyable 2004 laughter and tears […]

Jul, 20

The Last Man on Earth *** (1964, Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli) – Classic Movie Review 4054

Esteemed novelist Richard Matheson felt that Vincent Price was miscast as hero Dr Robert Morgan, but he seems to do a his usual sterling job as the last man on Earth who becomes a reluctant vampire hunter when […]

Jul, 19

The Omega Man **** (1971, Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 4055

Charlton Heston finds a useful role in this atmospheric and pretty creepy 1971 Twilight Zone-type zombie sci-fi thriller, as Army doctor Robert Neville, one of the last men alive after a germ war between Russia […]

Jul, 19

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