Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "John Hughes"

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The Breakfast Club **** (1985, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1786

Writer-director John Hughes’s fondly remembered 1985 movie is perhaps the key film of the Eighties phenomenon known as the Brat Pack, inspiring the movement and making the director’s reputation. It followed Sixteen Candles (1984), his first […]

Oct, 29

Flubber ** (1997, Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Clancy Brown, Ted Levine, Wil Wheaton, Edie McClurg) – Classic Movie Review 1552

Director Les Mayfield’s harmless and innocuous 1997 family comedy Flubber is fun for kids, though adults may find it tedious at times and that a little bit of it goes a long way. Just when […]

Aug, 16

Maid in Manhattan *** (2002, Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes) – Classic Movie Review 1338

Director Wayne Wang’s 2002 romcom is bright and lovely. Jennifer Lopez plays a New York hotel maid trying on rich socialite Natasha Richardson’s clothes when politician Ralph Fiennes, a candidate for the Senate, takes her […]

Jun, 20

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation *** (1989, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki) – Classic Movie Review 569

Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo welcome in a disaster-strewn Griswold-style Christmas with their two kids (Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis), in their third Vacation movie. Yule crack up, or yule be sorry you started watching this? […]

Dec, 23

Home Alone **** (1990, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 554

The 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin turns on the ingratiating charm as Kevin McCallister, a cute but cheeky, rowdy and rumbustious eight-year-old, in writer-producer John Hughes’s 1990 mega-moneymaker Home Alone. It has a simple but very effective, […]

Dec, 20

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