Derek Winnert

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble *** (1976, John Travolta, Glynnis O’Connor, Diana Hyland) – Classic Movie Review 1730

The young John Travolta (aged 22, playing a teenager) lights up director Randal Kleiser’s excellently handled, very affecting 1976 heart-tugging true story drama as Tod Lubitch, the teenage boy forced to live in the Plastic […]

Oct, 02 · in Reviews

Dolphin Tale 2 *** (2014, Harry Connick Jr, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble) – Movie Review

All the cast are back from the 2011 original in this polished, enjoyable true-life family drama sequel in which the team who saved dolphin Winter’s life re-assemble after the death of her surrogate mother, the […]

Oct, 02 · in Reviews

Nightcrawler ***** (2014, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton) – Movie Review

Dear Lou Bloom, You did real good! Congratulations to you and Video News Productions for your excellent Nightcrawler footage. Please give my best to Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton for their fine work […]

Oct, 01

Dracula Untold ** (2014, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Charles Dance, Paul Kaye) – Movie Review

Director Gary Shore’s Dracula movie Dracula Untold (2014) is a mundane and uninspired attempt to revive the threadbare formula, with a manly, workmanlike turn by Luke Evans as an action superhero type Vlad Tepes the Impaler and […]

Oct, 01

Bubble Boy *** (2001, Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton) – Classic Movie Review 1727

The 20-year-old Jake Gyllenhaal gives an appealing, expert performance in director Blair Hayes’s 2001 drama. Gyllenhaal does wonders with Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio’s tricky romantic comedy script about an immune-deficient boy called Jimmy Livingston. […]

Oct, 01

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold *** (1994, Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 1726

Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern, re-creating their roles as the hapless Manhattan dudes Mitch Robbins and Phil Berquist from the 1991 comedy Western blockbuster City Slickers, are back looking for laughs in the great Wild […]

Oct, 01

City Slickers **** (1991, Billy Crystal, Jack Palance, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 1725

Director Ron Underwood’s 1991 blockbuster comedy Western is great escapist fun and deservedly cleaned up at the box-office. Star Billy Crystal gives a sharp and confident comedy performance and penned the outline of the fresh-seeming […]

Oct, 01

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