Derek Winnert

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Stay Hungry **** (1976, Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R G Armstrong, Robert Englund) – Classic Movie Review 5165

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Bob Rafelson’s 1976 cult comedy drama film Stay Hungry stars Jeff Bridges as restless Alabama heir Craig Blake, who is suddenly orphaned. He turns his back on the country club values and […]

Mar, 16

Pete’s Dragon *** (1977, Sean Marshall, Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Jim Backus, Jeff Conaway) – Classic Movie Review 3712

Don Chaffey directs Walt Disney’s modest 1977 musical mix of animation and live action, in which big green-and-purple, dopey magical cartoon dragon Elliott (created by animator Don Bluth, voiced by Charlie Callas) saves the nine-year-old sweet orphan […]

May, 16

Dracula AD 1972 ** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Marsha Hunt, Christopher Neame, Caroline Munro, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 2,856

Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]

Aug, 28

Tarzan **** (1999, voices of Tony Goldwyn, Alex D Linz, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 2669

Directed by Chris Buck and Kevin Lima, the 1999 Tarzan is Walt Disney’s last box office triumph of its renaissance period before its decline in the early 2000s. Phil Collins won an Oscar and a Golden Globe […]

Jul, 05

The Great Ziegfeld **** (1936, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer) – Classic Movie Review 2026

  Director Robert Z Leonard’s triple-Oscar-winning 1936 MGM musical biopic is an incredibly lavish, spectacular and profitable biography of the great Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, famous as the showman producer of the most extravagant stage revues of […]

Dec, 31

Out of Africa **** (1985, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 1958

Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s deliriously plush and gorgeous-looking 1985 real-life romantic drama stars beautiful people Meryl Streep and Robert Redford as Danish baroness, plantation owner Karen Blixen and free-spirited big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, who fall […]

Dec, 14

The Road to Wellville *** (1994, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Broderick, Bridget Fonda, John Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 1878

Anthony Hopkins slices some memorable ham as Dr John Harvey Kellogg, the eccentric inventor of the cornflake, in the 1994 comedy drama film The Road to Wellville. The 1994 American comedy drama film The Road to […]

Nov, 23

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