Derek Winnert

Canadian Bacon ** (1995, John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 8949

The good cast is mostly wasted in writer-director Michael Moore’s largely misfiring 1995 satire Canadian Bacon – but then it would have been much, much worse without them. Alan Alda is quite funny as the […]

Sep, 29 · in Uncategorized

City of Hope **** (1991, Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Stephen Mendillo, Joe Morton, Barbara Williams, Chris Cooper, Kevin Tighe, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 8948

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1991 movie City of Hope is a splendidly confident dissection of a city’s despair over its race clashes, its poor, its past and its future. Vincent Spano heads a large ensemble cast […]

Sep, 29 · in Reviews

Death Hunt *** (1981, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Andrew Stevens, Ed Lauter, Carl Weathers) – Classic Movie Review 8947

Director Peter R Hunt’s lusty 1981 action adventure Death Hunt is based on a true story and stars Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Andrew Stevens, Ed Lauter and Carl Weathers. Death Hunt is one […]

Sep, 28

Hustlers * (2019, Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles ) – Movie Review

Writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s 2019 comedy crime drama Hustlers tells the real-life tale of a group of female strip club employees who go freelance and scam and rob their Wall Street male clients. It is inspired by […]

Sep, 28

The Goldfinch **** (2019, Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Boyd Gaines, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Jeffrey Wright) – Movie Review

Director John Crowley’s smart 2019 drama The Goldfinch stars Oakes Fegley as a 13-year-old boy, Theo Decker, whose mother is killed in a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and […]

Sep, 28

Death Race 2000 *** (1975, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth) – Classic Movie Review 8946

Director Paul Bartel’s 1975 exploitation classic Death Race 2000 stars David Carradine as leather-clad sports driver champion Frankenstein, who battles tough opponents Chicago challenger Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), cowgirl killer Calamity Jane (Mary […]

Sep, 28

Death Line [Raw Meat] *** (1972, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 8945

Story-writer/ director Gary Sherman’s 1972 British horror movie Death Line [Raw Meat] stars Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney and Christopher Lee. It is classic Seventies guilty pleasure horror. It seems that a […]

Sep, 28

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