Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Greenfingers **** (2000, Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer, Adam Fogerty, Lucy Punch) – Classic Movie Review 8874

Writer-director Joel Hershman’s Greenfingers stars Clive Owen as prisoner Colin Briggs, who is moved to an open jail, where his friendship with a dying Irish convict, Fergus Wilks (David Kelly), leads to a passion for […]

Aug, 31

Hot Pursuit ** (1987, John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller) – Classic Movie Review 8873

Co-writer/ director Steven Lisberger’s 1987 comedy Hot Pursuit stars young John Cusack, who plays Danny Bartlett, a lazy slacker college boy who flies off to the Caribbean in hot pursuit of his holidaying girlfriend Lori Cronenberg […]

Aug, 28

Curse of the Pink Panther * (1983, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Ted Wass) – Classic Movie Review 8872

Director Blake Edwards’s 1983 comedy Curse of the Pink Panther is an embarrassing and bizarre attempt to squeeze another film out of a series whose beloved and irreplaceable star, Peter Sellers, was long dead. Herbert […]

Aug, 27

Revenge of the Pink Panther ** (1978, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 8871

Director Blake Edwards’s 1978 comedy Revenge of the Pink Panther is only mildly amusing. Peter Sellers’s last hurrah as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau has virtually no story and is really no more than just a […]

Aug, 27

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