Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Masters of the Universe **** (1987, Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Billy Barty, Courteney Cox) – Classic Movie Review 7,028

Director Gary Goddard’s 1987 sci-fi fantasy action adventure film Masters of the Universe stars the Scandinavian super-hunk Dolph Lundgren, who gets a grand chance to flex his muscles as comic-strip heroic warrior hero He-Man, who […]

May, 10 · in Reviews

The Last Run *** (1971, George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst) – Classic Movie Review 7027

George C Scott stars in The Last Run (1971) as a retired getaway driver who must make a final run to help a convict flee to France, and thus somehow to prove himself, in this […]

May, 09 · in Reviews

Leaving Normal **** (1992, Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Patrika Darbo) – Classic Movie Review 7026

Director Edward Zwick’s excellent 1992 comedy drama stars Meg Tilly as mousy little Marianne Johnson, who walks out on her second marriage after her husband hits her. Following a chance meeting, she hitches a lift […]

May, 09

Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] **** (2017, Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria) – Movie Review

CUSTODY. First rate: totally gripping, disturbing and credible throughout. French writer-director Xavier Legrand’s engrossing and powerful debut feature comes to UK cinemas on 23 March 2018. Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] is first rate: totally gripping, disturbing, […]

May, 09

Freebie and the Bean *** (1974, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Valerie Harper) – Classic Movie Review 7025

The rumbustious 1974 prototype buddy cop movie Freebie and the Bean stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as bickering San Francisco cops. It is noisy, funny and full of action, but it was a troubled […]

May, 09

Starting Over **** (1979, Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen) – Classic Movie Review 7024

Director Alan J Pakula’s charming 1979 comedy-romance effectively casts Burt Reynolds as Phil Potter, the romantically inclined divorced writer who falls in love but finds he cannot choose between sweet teacher Marilyn Holmberg (Jill Clayburgh) […]

May, 09

Fat Man and Little Boy [Shadow Makers] ** (1989, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia) – Classic Movie Review 7023

Director Roland Joffe (The Mission) tackles a big subject of the making of atomic bombs in his 1989 film drama and comes a cropper. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie R Groves who in 1942 heads […]

May, 09

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