Derek Winnert

Articles

Frances **** (1982, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 2869

Jessica Lange as Best Actress and Kim Stanley as Best Supporting Actress were both Oscar and Golden Globe nominated and burn into the memory as the tormented Thirties movie star Frances Farmer and her demented […]

Aug, 31

Awakenings **** (1990, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 2868

Director Penny Marshall’s true-story 1990 drama stars Robin Williams as a timid doctor, who, along with a kindly nurse (Julie Kavner), awakes a group of patients in a Bronx hospital from a sleep-like trance. As […]

Aug, 31

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls *** (1970, Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2866

Director Russ Meyer’s legendary, infamous 1970 movie is a cult classic that entertains all lovers of enjoyably bad movies. Lusty porn film-maker Meyer heads for the mainstream with this camp and hilarious bad-taste sex and […]

Aug, 30

The Love Bug **** (1968, Dean Jones, David Tomlinson, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 2865

Director Robert Stevenson’s delightful 1968 children’s movie is a highly entertaining, totally endearing Walt Disney classic adventure about cute VW Beetle car Herbie motoring along with a heart and a brain. Clever chaps those German auto […]

Aug, 30

Freaky Friday ***½ (1976, Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 2863

Director Gary Nelson’s warm-hearted 1976 movie is a fondly remembered Seventies hit generation-swap comedy from the Walt Disney studio. Jodie Foster stars as Annabel Andrews, who exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her mom Ellen (Barbara […]

Aug, 30

Freaky Friday *** (2003, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 2864

The Walt Disney studio enjoyably remakes its fondly remembered 1976 hit and 1995 TV movie, generation-swap, with Lindsay Lohan starring as Anna Coleman, who magically exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her stressed-out single mom Tess Coleman (Jamie […]

Aug, 29

The Parent Trap ** (1998, Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2861

Director Nancy Meyers’s 1998 remake for Walt Disney of its own 1961 Hayley Mills hit The Parent Trap stars a pre-troubled era young Lindsay Lohan. It is based on the 1949 novel Das Doppelte Löttchen […]

Aug, 29

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.