Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

A Midsummer Night’s Dream **** (1935, James Cagney, Dick Powell, Jean Muir, Olivia de Havilland, Joe E Brown, Mickey Rooney, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 7833

Warner Brothers bring Max Reinhardt’s Hollywood Bowl and Broadway production of the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the screen with mixed results but definite success. It won two Oscars – for Best […]

Nov, 26 · in Reviews

Homicide **** (1991, Joe Mantegna, William H Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, Ving Rhames, Natalija Nogulich, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, J J Johnston) – Classic Movie Review 7832

The 1991 movie Homicide is a smart, upmarket neo-noir crime thriller from clever writer-director David Mamet, who ignores some of the genre’s thrills at his peril in a look at anti-Semitism and racism. Joe Mantegna […]

Nov, 26 · in Uncategorized

Things Change **** (1988, Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky, J J Johnston, Ricky Jay) – Classic Movie Review 7831

Director David Mamet’s 1988 crime comedy drama Things Change is his intelligent and literate follow-up to his 1987 debut as director, House of Games. It is written by Mamet and Shel Silverstein. It is a strangely old-fashioned gangster […]

Nov, 25

Rocky V ** (1990, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Tommy Morrison) – Classic Movie Review 7830

Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Burgess Meredith team up with original 1976 Rocky director John G Avildsen for the 1990 boxing movie sequel Rocky V, the final episode of the original run of […]

Nov, 24

Rocky III *** (1982, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Hulk Hogan, Tony Burton, Mr T) – Classic Movie Review 7,829

The 1982 boxing movie sequel Rocky III provides yet another fistful of dollars for Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, who turns to his old adversary Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) to help him train to fight vicious Clubber Lang (Mr […]

Nov, 24

Rocky II *** (1979, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 7828

The 1979 boxing movie sequel Rocky II provides another fistful of dollars for Sylvester Stallone as writer, director and star of this virtual reprise of the original 1976 Rocky. In this one, the unemployed, inarticulate, […]

Nov, 24

Rocky IV *** (1985, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Tony Burton) – Classic Movie Review 7827

Dolph Lundgren stars in writer-director Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 boxing movie sequel Rocky IV as Russian boxer Ivan Drago, the so-called ‘Siberian Express’, who delivers a final knockout blow to Rocky Balboa (Stallone)’s old rival and […]

Nov, 24

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