Derek Winnert

The Great Mouse Detective *** (1986, voices of Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin) – Classic Movie Review 8180

Walt Disney’s fun 1986 family animation adventure The Great Mouse Detective is a rodent reworking of the Sherlock Holmes stories, inspired by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, who remains uncredited. The main characters are […]

Feb, 28 · in Reviews

The Great Outdoors ** (1988, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 8179

‘The wildlife is wild, but his brother-in-law is unbearable.’ Director Howard Deutch’s amiable but slack 1988 comedy The Great Outdoors at least starts with the benefit of a strong, game star cast of Dan Aykroyd, […]

Feb, 28 · in Reviews

Goodbye Gemini (1970, Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 8178

Goodbye Gemini (1970) ended up listed as a video nasty. Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play Chelsea teenage sister and brother twins up to their pretty necks in a pretty offensive plot. Director Alan Gibson’s […]

Feb, 27

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly [Girly] (1970, Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, Howard Trevor, Vanessa Howard) – Classic Movie Review 8177

Director Freddie Francis’s twisted, sick 1970 British horror movie Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly [aka Girly] is The Addams Family without the laughs. It is an appalling, shockingly inept shocker about two crazy teens, Sonny […]

Feb, 27

The Great Man’s Lady *** (1942, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 8176

Producer-director William A Wellman’s 1941 The Great Man’s Lady stars Barbara Stanwyck as a centenarian pioneer woman called Hannah Sempler Hoyt, who looks back over her life as the wife of pioneer Ethan Hoyt (Joel […]

Feb, 27

The Great Muppet Caper *** (1981, voices of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Steve Whitmire) – Classic Movie Review 8175

Director Jim Henson’s Muppets again feature in the 1981 The Great Muppet Caper, a much-improved sequel to the 1979 first caper The Muppet Movie, with a amiable selection of largely British performers, raising reliable laughs. […]

Feb, 27

The Muppets Take Manhattan **** (1984, voices of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz) – Classic Movie Review 8,174

In the third Muppet movie, Kermit the Frog (voice of Jim Henson), Miss Piggy (Frank Oz), Fozzie Bear (Frank Oz) and Gonzo (Dave Goelz) take their college show to Manhattan to try to storm Broadway. […]

Feb, 27

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