Derek Winnert

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Brewster McCloud **** (1970, Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Shelley Duvall, René Auberjonois, John Schuck, Michael Murphy, Stacy Keach, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 6,478

Bud Cort stars as a likeably strange, owlish young man who learns to fly with his man-made wings inside the Houston Astrodome, Texas, in director Robert Altman’s appealing 1970 film oddity Brewster McCloud. Bud Cort […]

Dec, 27

Fracture **** (2007, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Bob Gunton) – Classic Movie Review 6360

Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling crackle in the 2007 legal thriller Fracture as rich aeronautics engineer Ted Crawford, who has devised the perfect murder of his cheating wife, and Willy Beachum, the cocky young public […]

Dec, 06

Alice’s Restaurant **** (1969, Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 6334

‘You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.’ Co-writer/ director Arthur Penn’s engaging, quirky, sometimes brilliant 1969 anti-establishment film perfectly captures the late-Sixties stop-the-Vietnam War spirit of the Arlo Guthrie song (‘The Alice’s Restaurant […]

Nov, 29

The Running Man *** (1987, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown) – Classic Movie Review 6,249

Can you believe that 13 November 2025 is already the 38th anniversary of the 1980s iconic sci-fi and fantasy film The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Can you believe that 13 November 2017 is already the 30th anniversary of […]

Nov, 14

Palm Springs Weekend ** (1963, Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Robert Conrad, Stefanie Powers, Jerry Van Dyke) – Classic Movie Review 6242

‘IT’S WHERE THE BOYS ARE AND THE GIRLS ARE…that swingin’ vacation weekend when American youth descends on America’s swankiest playground!’ As a kind of follow-on from 1960’s Where the Boys Are, this one could have been […]

Nov, 13

Bad Lieutenant ***** (1992, Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Lund, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito) – Classic Movie Review 6127

Co-writer/ director Abel Ferrara’s eye-opening 1992 screen-scalder stars a career best Harvey Keitel, who is astonishing in a full-frontal performance as the kind of corrupt New York City police detective who steals drugs from a […]

Oct, 23

Unlawful Entry * (1992, Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe) – Classic Movie Review 6090

Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe star as a white middle-class married couple who call the cops when a black robber breaks into their LA suburban home. Ray Liotta plays one of the cops, a psychotic […]

Oct, 13

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