Derek Winnert

Ruggles of Red Gap **** (1935, Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young) – Classic Movie Review 8243

Director Leo McCarey’s 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap is a bona fide classic Thirties comedy showcasing Charles Laughton’s definitive comic turn as the quintessential English butler/ valet Marmarduke Ruggles, lost in a poker game by […]

Mar, 14 · in Reviews

Sky West and Crooked [Gypsy Girl] *** (1966, Hayley Mills, Ian McShane, Annette Crosbie, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 8242

Love blossoms between backward and troublesome teenage country girl Brydie White (played by Hayley Mills) and gypsy lad Roibin (Ian McShane), in the 1966 British romantic drama Sky West and Crooked [Gypsy Girl], a pretty […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

Skyjacked *** (1972, Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Walter Pidgeon, Susan Dey) – Classic Movie Review 8241

Director John Guillermin bids you welcome to captain Charlton Heston’s Boeing 707 supposedly bound for Minneapolis but unfortunately for the passengers it is hijacked by a crazed Vietnam vet bomber, who demands to be taken […]

Mar, 13

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

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

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

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