Derek Winnert

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Real Men (1987, Jim Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 10,744

Talented and likeable but variable comedic actors Jim Belushi [James Belushi] and John Ritter can’t get writer-director Dennis Feldman’s weird 1987 spy action comedy Real Men started, thanks to a lame script and a flat […]

Jan, 03

In Search of Gregory ** (1969, Julie Christie, Michael Sarrazin, John Hurt, Adolfo Celi, Paola Pitagora, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 8,290

The 1969 mystery drama film In Search of Gregory is mysterious, ambitious and intelligent enough, but also obscure and remote enough. It was Julie Christie’s second box-office flop in a row. ‘Sister, Brother, Lover… a […]

Mar, 24

The Last Run *** (1971, George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst) – Classic Movie Review 7027

George C Scott stars in The Last Run (1971) as a retired getaway driver who must make a final run to help a convict flee to France, and thus somehow to prove himself, in this […]

May, 09

Le Mans *** (1971, Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen) – Classic Movie Review 5282

Directors Lee H Katzin and John Sturges’s 1971 documentary-style sports action adventure drama allows Steve McQueen to bring his car-racing hobby to the screen in a fictional star role as Michael Delaney, a sullen American […]

Apr, 13

Taxi * (2004, Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bündchen, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 4971

Queen Latifah teams up with US comedian Jimmy Fallon as a New York City taxi driver and the cop who helps her tackle a four-woman gang of gorgeous Brazilian bank robbers (Gisele Bündchen, Ana Cristina […]

Jan, 31

Learning to Drive ***½ (2014, Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury) – Movie Review

Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley are the driving forces behind director Isabel Coixet’s diverting and attractive romantic comedy drama. I hope they don’t mind me calling them old pros, it’s meant to be a real […]

Jun, 12

Days of Thunder *** (1990, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, John C Reilly, J C Quinn, Michael Rooker) – Classic Movie Review 3334

Director Tony Scott’s 1990 old-style fast-car adventure movie is celebrated, if at all, as the first pairing of the Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who then became real-life husband and wife. It reunites Cruise and […]

Feb, 06

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