Derek Winnert

The Best of Times ** (1986, Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, Donald Moffat, M Emmet Walsh, R G Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 7654

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1986 The Best of Times is the first of three 1986 flop films that the late great Robin Williams made in his own worst of box-office times, playing Jack Dundee, a mild, bespectacled […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

Winter People *** (1989, Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 7653

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 period drama Winter People stars Kurt Russell as young widower Wayland Jackson, arriving in a North Carolina mountain town with his daughter Paula (Amelia Burnette) in 1934, falls for young unmarried […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

The Mean Season **** (1985, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Richard Bradford, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 7,652

Phillip Borsos’s 1985 American neo noir thriller film The Mean Season is a gripping, powerful, atmospheric crime thriller with an excellent role for Kurt Russell as a Miami newspaper reporter used as a public mouthpiece […]

Oct, 09

Tango & Cash **** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 7651

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s appealing 1989 Tango & Cash teams Sylvester Stallone as Lieutenant Raymond Tango with Kurt Russell Stallone as Lieutenant Gabriel Cash, LA’s top two rival cops. Rivals they may be, but the mismatched […]

Oct, 09

Tequila Sunrise **** (1988, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J T Walsh, Arliss Howard, Ayre Gross) – Classic Movie Review 7650

The intelligent and gripping 1988 romantic crime thriller Tequila Sunrise is written and directed by Robert Towne (who scripted Chinatown). It boasts a good Eighties cast, with three glossy and appealing stars: Mel Gibson as […]

Oct, 09

Leviathan *** (1989, Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Meg Foster, Ernie Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 7649

Director George Pan Cosmatos’s 1989 sci-fi horror thriller Leviathan stars Peter RoboCop Weller as Steven Beck, the leader of a deep-sea mining crew from Florida who stumble across a sunken Russian vessel used in a disastrous experiment in […]

Oct, 09

Cobra ** (1986, Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni) – Classic Movie Review 7648

Director George Pan Cosmatos reunites with Sylvester Stallone after Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) for the 1986 action thriller Cobra, based on the novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling, with a screenplay by Stallone […]

Oct, 08

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