Derek Winnert

Blues Brothers 2000 * (1998, Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Nia Peoples, Kathleen Freeman, Frank Oz) – Classic Movie Review 8240

Director John Landis’s 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 is a truly awful, misbegotten, forlorn sequel to the 1980 hit The Blues Brothers, in which Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is freed from jail and reassembles the old […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

Twilight’s Last Gleaming **** (1977, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 8239

Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a gleaming, smart thriller, starring Burt Lancaster as Lawrence Dell, a maverick Air Force general who escapes from a military prison and captures a US missile […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

Twilight Zone: The Movie *** (1983, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, John Lithgow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 8238

The 1983 horror and science fiction movie Twilight Zone: The Movie is a compendium of four weird stories in a homage to creator Rod Serling’s cult Fifties/ Sixties TV series The Twilight Zone (1959–1964), directed […]

Mar, 13

The Kentucky Fried Movie *** (1977, Evan C Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby, Marilyn Joi, Saul Kahan, Marcy Goldman, Joe Medalis, George Lazenby, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 8237

Director John Landis’s 1977 madcap comedy The Kentucky Fried Movie is a bawdy, sometimes crude, mostly funny, occasionally hilarious series of sketches from the Kentucky Fried Theater comics from Madison in Wisconson. The Kentucky Fried […]

Mar, 13

A Man from Wyoming * (1930, Gary Cooper, June Collyer, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 8236

‘Tender romance mid the thrills of fighting! No-Man’s land and the night life on the gay, war-time Riviera.’ The young Gary Cooper (already 29) stars in director Rowland V Lee’s 1930 romantic war drama A […]

Mar, 13

The Man from Utah ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo, Edward Peil Sr, Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8235

Young John Wayne sits tall in the saddle in director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Man from Utah, another average, low-budget Thirties Western from the Duke. In the story and screenplay by Lindsley Parsons, Wayne […]

Mar, 13

The Man from Planet X **** (1951, Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 8234

The 1951 film The Man from Planet X is a surprisingly intelligent, imaginative and entertaining sci-fi horror movie adventure, shot in only a week (or six working days) by the globetrotting, prolific B-movie director Edgar […]

Mar, 12

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