Derek Winnert

Enchanted Island * (1958, Dana Andrews, Jane Powell, Don Dubbins) – Classic Movie Review 8881

‘He dared to love a cannibal princess!’ Director Allan Dwan’s colourful 1958 action adventure drama Enchanted Island is a cheap and none too cheerful version of Herman Melville’s less famous novel Typee, though it is […]

Sep, 07 · in Reviews

Most Dangerous Man Alive ** (1961, Debra Paget, Elaine Stewart, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 8880

Ron Randell stars as escaped mobster Eddie Candell, who starts mutating after straying into a desert nuclear atomic testing zone, in director Allan Dwan’s low-budget 1961 black and white sci-fi psychotronic film Most Dangerous Man […]

Sep, 07 · in Reviews

The Ladies Man * (2000, Tim Meadows, Karyn Parsons, Billy Dee Williams, Lee Evans, Will Ferrell, Eugene Levy, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8879

American comic Tim Meadows plays sweet-talking Chicago late-night radio advice-show host Leon Phelps, who talks so dirty to his lady callers that he is fired with producer Julie (Karyn Parsons). Also Leon is being chased […]

Sep, 04

The 51st State [Formula 51] ** (2001, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 8878

Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]

Sep, 03

Strictly Sinatra ** (2001, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, Brian Cox, Alun Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 8,877

Ian Hart from Liverpool manages a decent Scots accent and a nifty vocal impression of Frank Sinatra, as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed with Ol’ Blue Eyes, in writer-director Peter Capaldi’s 2001 romantic […]

Sep, 03

Driven ** (2001, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 8876

Sylvester Stallone is in low gear for director Renny Harlin’s pounding 2001 motor-race movie Driven, in which a thumping rock score battles the roar of Indy car engines as drivers try to ram each other […]

Sep, 01

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within **** (2001, voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ming-Na Wen, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Keith David, Jean Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 8875

Alien ghosts invade Earth in the first totally computer-generated motion capture film to ‘star’ creepy-looking ‘photo-realistic’ humans that won’t put any actors out of work. Based on a hit video game, directors Hironobu Sakaguchi and […]

Sep, 01

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