Derek Winnert

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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear **** (1991, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O J Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 8206

Director David Zucker’s brilliantly zany 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is more of the same comic misadventures with the treasurable Leslie Nielsen back as the seriously inept LA cop Lieutenant Frank […]

Mar, 06

Widows ** (2018, Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Erivo) – Movie Review

Something is lost on the way to 2018 Chicago for the cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows. Director / co-writer Steve McQueen wants a posh movie, and this is the problem, with […]

Oct, 10

Inn for Trouble *** (1960, Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Leslie Phillips, Shaun O’Riordan, Ronan O’Casey) – Classic Movie Review 7549

The Larkins ride again in director C M Pennington-Richards’s genial 1960 film Inn for Trouble, a big-screen adaptation of the then current, highly popular Fifties/Sixties British ITV series that ran from 1958 to 1964. Peggy […]

Sep, 06

Mission: Impossible – Fallout **** (2018, Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Monaghan) – Movie Review

As you’ve probably gathered from all the ads and trailers, Tom Cruise is back for his sixth Mission: Impossible, starring once more as Ethan Hunt, who rejoins his sturdy, stalwart little IMF team of Ving […]

Jul, 13

Mutiny on the Buses * (1972, Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Anna Karen, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 6878

Director Harry Booth’s saucy slice-of-life 1972 British comedy is the middle film in the 1969 to 1973 ITV show film spinoff series, following 1971’s On the Buses. It tries its best, and there are a few […]

Apr, 03

Up the Front ** (1972, Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, William Mervyn, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Dora Bryan, Lance Percival, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5895

Director Bob Kellett’s saucily coarse, very much hit-and-miss 1972 British comedy Up the Front stars the great comedian Frankie Howerd, who is again is on tittersome form as Lurk, Lord Twithampton (William Mervyn)’s cowardly servant. […]

Aug, 11

Baywatch * (2017, Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Kelly Rohrbach, Alexandra Daddario) – Movie Review

Dwayne Johnson stars as hard-man lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, who clashes with brash, conceited new beach boy recruit Matt Brody (Zac Efron). But then together they uncover a criminal plot by drugs villainess Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra). Yes […]

May, 23

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