Derek Winnert

Gone Fishin’ ** (1997, Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Nick Brimble, Carol Kane, Willie Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 7943

Lethal Weapon 2 co-stars Joe Pesci, Danny Glover give broad but genial performances as buddies Joe and Gus, on an ill-fated fishing trip to the Florida Everglades, a free trip they win a contest. Trouble follows […]

Dec, 24 · in Reviews

Treasure Planet *** (2002, voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, Martin Short, Patrick McGoohan) – Classic Movie Review 7942

Writer/ producer/ directors Ron Clements and John Musker’s 2002 animated feature Treasure Planet brings the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island freshly up to date in the space age in Walt Disney Pictures’ gleaming and […]

Dec, 24 · in Reviews

Catch-22 **** (Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 7941

Buck Henry’s screenplay to bring to the screen the complex Joseph Heller satirical novel Catch-22 about the absurdities of life in an American wartime Air Force camp is not perfect. But it is intelligent, dark […]

Dec, 23

Race for the Yankee Zephyr [Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr] (1981, Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence, George Peppard, Bruno Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7940

British actor-producer David Hemmings went down under, to New Zealand, that is, to direct the good-looking if undemanding and largely fumbled 1981 action adventure movie Race for the Yankee Zephyr [Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr] […]

Dec, 23

The Giants of Thessaly [I giganti della Tessaglia] *** (1960, Roland Carey, Ziva Rodann, Massimo Girotti, Alberto Farnese) – Classic Movie Review 7939

‘The Screen Explodes With Wondrous Spectacle Bigger Than Anything You Have Ever Seen!! ‘ Director Riccardo Freda’s entertaining 1960 Italian-French adventure-fantasy film The Giants of Thessaly [I giganti della Tessaglia (Gli Argonauti)] is loosely based on the Greek […]

Dec, 23

Il Gigante di Metropolis [The Giant of Metropolis] ** (1961, Gordon Mitchell, Roldano Lupi, Bella Cortez, Liana Orfei, Marietto) – Classic Movie Review 7938

Perfectly developed bodybuilder Gordon Mitchell from Denver, Colorado, stars as muscleman Ohro, who goes to the capital of Atlantis to attack its godlessness and battles its evil lord Yotar or Yoh-tar (Roldano Lupi), in director […]

Dec, 23

Revolt of the Mercenaries [La rivolta dei mercenari] ** (1961, Virginia Mayo, Conrado San Martín, Susana Canales) – Classic Movie Review 7937

Director Piero Costa’s 1964 Revolt of the Mercenaries [La Rivolta dei Mercenari] is a lurid and lusty if somewhat mediocre Italian swashbuckler, set during the Renaissance in Friuli, Venezia, in an Italy that was then […]

Dec, 23

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