Derek Winnert

Flamingo Road ***** (1949, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2011

Director Michael Curtiz’s steamy and over-heated but memorable 1949 romantic noir melodrama finds the ideal star in the one and only Joan Crawford in her follow-up to the acclaimed Mildred Pierce, where she won the […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

The Flamingo Kid **** (1984, Matt Dillon, Hector Elizondo, Richard Crenna, Molly McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 2010

Director Garry Marshall’s warm and delightful 1984 coming of age teen comedy treasure stars the young, fresh and talented Matt Dillon as Jeffrey Willis, a nice kid from Brooklyn who has just finished high school […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

Pretty Woman ****½ (1990, Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 2012

Director Garry Marshall’s scintillating romcom blockbuster is a good old-fashioned romantic comedy with a few 1990 trimmings, and was the surprise number-one hit of its year. Its continuing popularity is shown by listeners of Capital […]

Dec, 29

New Port South ** (2001, Kevin Christy, Blake Shields, Will Estes, Melissa George) – Classic Movie Review 2009

Director Kyle Cooper’s intriguingly themed teen drama stars Blake Shields as Maddox, a cranky American teenager who grows tired of the repressive attitudes in his suburban Chicago high school called New Port South. So he resolves to […]

Dec, 28

Lost in Yonkers ***½ (1993, Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth) – Classic Movie Review 2008

Director Martha Coolidge’s 1993 movie of Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway show is a straightforward, no-frills theatre-to-film transfer with no particular concessions to the medium of cinema. But the enticingly nostalgic summer of 1942 wartime […]

Dec, 28

Broadway Bound ***½ (1992, Anne Bancroft, Hume Cronyn, Corey Parker, Jonathan Silverman) – Classic Movie Review 2007

Director Paul Bogart’s enthralling 1992 movie of the third part of Neil Simon’s delightful, famous Broadway stage trilogy stars Corey Parker, who takes over from Matthew Broderick in Biloxi Blues (1988) as the saga’s hero and Simon […]

Dec, 28

Brighton Beach Memoirs **** (1986, Blythe Danner, Jonathan Silverman, Bob Dishy, Brian Drillinger, Stacey Glick, Judith Ivey) – Classic Movie Review 2006

Infuriatingly, Matthew Broderick doesn’t get to recreate his superb Broadway performance as Eugene Morris Jerome, the young teenage son of a Jewish family through whose eyes we see the typically Woody Allen-style family squabbles and […]

Dec, 28

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