Derek Winnert

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Tammy and the Doctor ** (1963, Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Beulah Bondi, Margaret Lindsay, Reginald Owen, Adam West, Alice Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 5512

Sandra Dee returns from Tammy, Tell Me True (1961) for the third Tammy tale movie Tammy and the Doctor (1963), her second and last appearance in the role, as Debbie Reynolds starred as Tammy in […]

May, 28

Extreme Measures ** (1996, Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 5461

If you think Hugh Grant can only be foppishly funny, try out his big American dramatic debut in director Michael Apted’s dark and gritty 1996 medical thriller. Alas, though it is entertaining enough, it never […]

May, 15

House Calls **** (1978, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 5,395

Director Howard Zieff’s 1978 screwball comedy film House Calls stars Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, who make an unlikely but delightful romantic comedy team, in this funny doctoring satire set against a hospital background. Matthau […]

May, 05

The Void **** (2016, Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Kenneth Welsh) – Movie Review

Writer-directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s first-class low-budget Seventies-style horror movie stars Aaron Poole as cop Daniel Carter, who starts it off promisingly by discovering a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road at night. Carter then rushes the […]

Apr, 01

Bobby Deerfield ** (1977, Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Walter McGinn, Romolo Valli, Jaime Sanchez) – Classic Movie Review 5043

Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s least interesting and least good films were his plush romances that kept insisting on making. Witness his old-fashioned 1977 movie with Al Pacino as American Grand Prix racing driver Bobby Deerfield, who […]

Feb, 22

Britannia Hospital *** (1982, Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Malcolm McDowell, Arthur Lowe, Joan Plowright, Peter Jeffrey, Alan Bates) – Classic Movie Review 5040

The 1982 box-office flop satirical black comedy Britannia Hospital about a beleaguered, crumbling British hospital beset with strikes, demos, a mad doctor, a cannibalistic dictator and a visit by Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother […]

Feb, 21

How Awful About Allan **½ (1970, Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4820

Director Curtis Harrington’s intense 1970 psychological thriller stars Anthony Perkins as Allan, a tormented psychosomatic blind man who thinks that his release from an eight-month stay in a mental hospital and his proximity to his […]

Dec, 30

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