Derek Winnert

Fedora **** (1978, William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegarde Knef, José Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2661

Director Billy Wilder’s horribly undervalued final film from 1978 is fittingly a report on the movie business’s excesses and an attack on Hollywood’s youth-oriented culture, told in flashback. Marthe Keller stars as a dotty, reclusive old […]

Jul, 03 · in Reviews

Ted 2 **** (2015, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Morgan Freeman, voice of Seth MacFarlane) – Movie Review

With the help of some seamless CGI, talking bear Ted (voice of Seth MacFarlane) marries Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) but after a year they’re rowing badly. Ted’s lifetime best pal John (Mark Wahlberg) agrees he needs to have a […]

Jul, 03 · in Reviews

FernGully: The Last Rainforest *** (1992, voices of Jonathan Ward, Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry, Christian Slater, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2660

Director Bill Kroyer’s commendably green 1992 Australian-American fantasy environmental film is a musical mix of animation and reality. It is set within the expanses of a great fictitious Australian rain-forest, whose magical fairy inhabitants fight to save their […]

Jul, 02

Lethal Weapon 3 ** (1992, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo, Joe Pesci, Stuart Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 2659

‘Nobody’s dead.’ ‘Hey, the night’s young.’  Yes, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover (as rogue cops Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh) and Joe Pesci (as Leo Getz) reunite for director Richard Donner’s fast-talking, action packed but somewhat […]

Jul, 02

Lethal Weapon 4 *** (1998, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, Jet Li) – Classic Movie Review 2,658

Gibson and Danny Glover return as rogue LAPD cops Riggs and Murtaugh, and reunite with Joe Pesci and Rene Russo for Richard Donner’s 1998 film Lethal Weapon 4, the fourth rumbustious buddy action thriller about […]

Jul, 02

Lethal Weapon **** (1987, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Mitchell Ryan, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 2657

Director Richard Donner’s thrilling 1987 buddy police action thriller Lethal Weapon spectacularly revived Mel Gibson’s then flagging film career after a few box-office disappointments. Donner said the casting was ‘magical, just total dynamite’. Mel Gibson and […]

Jul, 02

Love & Mercy **** (2014, John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

The story of the Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson makes for an excellent, riveting movie. It is grippingly told and imaginatively filmed by director Bill Pohlad. The screenplay by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner has a […]

Jul, 01

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