Derek Winnert

The Thomas Crown Affair ***** (1968, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire, Yaphet Kotto) – Classic Movie Review 2,229

Director Norman Jewison’s entrancing, cucumber-cool 1968 thriller The Thomas Crown Affair is a highly polished, entertaining fake gem that perfectly captures the glitzy escapist, colour supplement aspect of the late Sixties zeitgeist. Those fashionable beautiful […]

Mar, 02 · in Reviews

The Getaway **** (1994, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2,228

The sizzling 1994 action crime thriller The Getaway is a surprise remake of the 1972 favourite. This time Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star as the crooks who have to rob a race-track alongside psychotic […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

The Cincinnati Kid ***** (1965, Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G Robinson, Karl Malden, Joan Blondell, Tuesday Weld) – Classic Movie Review 2,227

Director Norman Jewison’s classic 1965 gambling suspense thriller film The Cincinnati Kid stars Steve McQueen and Edward G Robinson as poker game opponents in a gripping, haunting battle royale with a bunch of iconic Sixties […]

Mar, 01

Garfield ** (2004, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Stephen Tobolowsky, voice of Bill Murray) – Classic Movie Review 2226

The real star of director Peter Howitt’s harmless 2004 children’s comedy is the inimitable vocals of Bill Murray, as the jokey voice of computerised fat cat Garfield. Murray is the making of this daft kids’ […]

Feb, 28

102 Dalmatians *** (2000, Glenn Close, Gérard Depardieu, Ioan Gruffudd) – Classic Movie Review 2225

Director Kevin Lima’s 2000 slapstick Disney live-action comedy is a quite cute and reasonably funny sequel to the 1996 hit, a remake of the 1961 classic animated feature, based on the novel by Dodie Smith. Unfortunately, […]

Feb, 28

101 Dalmatians **** (1996, Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Hugh Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 2224

Director Stephen Herek’s sprightly 1996 live-action version of the 1961 Walt Disney animation classic spot-lights comedy, fantasy and fun-filled adventure, in an adorable, irresistible story based on the 1956 novel by Dodie Smith. It sits up […]

Feb, 28

101 Dalmatians ***** (1961, voices of Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, J Pat O’Malley, Martha Wentworth, Ben Wright) – Classic Movie Review 2223

Directors Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S Luske and Clyde Geronimi’s beloved 1961 Walt Disney animated feature-length classic is well above par for the studio’s troubled course from the late 50s through the 60s and the 70s, […]

Feb, 28

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