Derek Winnert

The Dream Team **** (1989, Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris, Lorraine Bracco, Milo O’Shea, Philip Bosco, James Remar) – Classic Movie Review 8769

Director Howard Zieff’s 1989 comedy The Dream Team stars Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst as mental hospital patients who are separated from their doctor chaperone Dr Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) on a […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

West of the Pecos *** (1945, Robert Mitchum, Barbara Hale, Richard Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8774

Director Edward Killy’s 1945 Western movie West of the Pecos is another film lifted by its stars Robert Mitchum and Barbara Hale, and its stalwart cast, but also by Killy’s brisk, competent, no-nonsense direction. RKO […]

Jul, 28 · in Reviews

What About Bob? **** (1991, Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty) – Classic Movie Review 8768

Director Frank Oz’s hilarious 1991 crazy comedy What About Bob? is a neatly crafted showcase for the unstoppable comic talents of the Bill Murray-Richard Dreyfuss team. Endearingly insecure Bob Wiley (Murray), an obsessive-compulsive neurotic who […]

Jul, 28

Doc Hollywood *** (1991, Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Bridget Fonda, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson) – Classic Movie Review 8767

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s good-natured, nicely cast 1991 romantic comedy drama Doc Hollywood stars Michael J Fox as arrogant young big-city doctor Dr Ben Stone, who is sentenced to 32 hours community service in a small […]

Jul, 28

Man of La Mancha * (1972, Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle, Brian Blessed, Ian Richardson, Julie Gregg, Rosalie Crutchley) – Classic Movie Review 8766

The all-time great hit Broadway musical play by Dale Wasserman about Don Quixote becomes an unhappy film musical in producer-director Arthur Hiller’s 1972 Man of La Mancha because it is miscast and misconceived and the […]

Jul, 27

The Man on the Eiffel Tower *** (1949, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 8765

Director Burgess Meredith’s 1949 The Man on the Eiffel Tower is an often tensely suspense-filled mystery thriller, based on the 1931 Georges Simenon novel La Tête d’un Homme or A Battle of Nerves (his fifth […]

Jul, 27

The Current War *** (2017, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland, Nicholas Hoult, Katherine Waterston, Matthew Macfadyen, Tuppence Middleton) – Movie Review

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War is an impressive staging of a fascinating story, with a quartet of intense performances from Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland and Nicholas Hoult. Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and […]

Jul, 27

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