Derek Winnert

F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion [F/X2] *** (1991, Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin) – Classic Movie Review 9645

Director Richard Franklin’s 1991 complicated action thriller F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion [F/X2] stars Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy and Rachel Ticotin. In a surprise, belated sequel to 1986’s F/X – Murder by Illusion, Bryan […]

Apr, 17 · in Reviews

F/X – Murder by Illusion [F/X] *** (1986, Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora) – Classic Movie Review 9644

Director Robert Mandel’s bright, pacey 1986 thriller F/X – Murder by Illusion [F/X] has a lot of lively action, and, yes, lots of special effects. Bryan Brown stars as Rollie Tyler, a film special effects […]

Apr, 17 · in Reviews

Gorky Park *** (1983, William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula) – Classic Movie Review 9643

Director Michael Apted’s 1983 Gorky Park stars William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy, who are all excellent in this sombre, well-crafted and at least half-decent thriller, scripted from Martin Cruz Smith’s bestseller by controversial […]

Apr, 17

Best Seller [Hard Cover] **** (1987, James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant) – Classic Movie Review 9642

Director John Flynn’s 1987 thriller Best Seller [Hard Cover] stars Brian Dennehy in an unusual cosy performance as Dennis Meechum, a cop-turned-author who survives a violent robbery and remembers the appearance of one of his […]

Apr, 17

Three for the Show *** (1955, Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 9641

Columbia Pictures remade 1940’s Too Many Husbands as director H C Potter’s lively and carefree but thin 1955 Technicolor, CinemaScope musical Three for the Show. Betty Grable stars as Julie Lowndes, the showgal who finds […]

Apr, 16

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors *** (1991, Joan Hickson, Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, Faith Brook, David Horovitch) – Classic Movie Review 9,640

Shots are fired in a darkened room in the lively, inventive and unusual 1991 TV movie Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors. Joan Hickson takes on her eleventh case as the BBC’s detective Miss […]

Apr, 16

My Father the Hero * (1994, Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James) – Classic Movie Review 9639

Director Steve Miner’s 1994 comedy drama My Father, the Hero stars Gérard Depardieu, who re-creates his role in this coursened, disappointing American version of his amusing enough 1991 French romantic comedy Mon Père, Ce Héros. […]

Apr, 16

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