Derek Winnert

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It’s in the Bag! **** (1945, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 10,496

Director Richard Wallace’s wisecracking 1945 slapstick screwball comedy It’s in the Bag! [The Fifth Chair] stars baggy-eyed American radio comedian Fred Allen, who gets his best screen role as a flea-circus promoter/ ringmaster called Fred […]

Nov, 03

Up ‘n’ Under ** (1998, Gary Olsen, Neil Morrissey, Samantha Janus, Tony Slattery, Griff Rhys Jones) – Classic Movie Review 10,494

An untrained Rugby Sevens team, boosted by the alluring Hazel Scott (played by Samantha Janus, aka Samantha Womack), have to get in shape to try to defeat the The Cobblers Arms reigning champions and win […]

Nov, 03

Three Wishes ** (1995, Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy) – Classic Movie Review 10,474

‘If you really believe, magic will find you’. Director Martha Coolidge’s 1995 Three Wishes is a soft-centred, corny feel-good fantasy movie that stars Patrick Swayze as injured vagrant Jack McCloud being invited to move in […]

Oct, 28

I.Q. *** (1994, Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Joseph Maher, Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 10,473

Ah, yes, with Albert Einstein as Cupid what could possibly go wrong? Director Fred Schepisi’s 1994 romantic comedy film I.Q. stars Tim Robbins as garage mechanic Ed Walters, who tries to romance mathematician Catherine Boyd, […]

Oct, 28

Hanging Up ** (2000, Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Cloris Leachman, Adam Arkin) – Classic Movie Review 10,472

Diane Keaton directs and stars in the well-cast, weepie 2000 family comedy drama Hanging Up about a trio of attractive self-absorbed middle-aged sisters (Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow), who are forced to forget their differences […]

Oct, 28

3 Women **** (1977, Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 10,471

‘1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1’. Writer-director Robert Altman’s 1977 avant-garde drama film 3 Women is an Ingmar Bergmanesque study of vain old folks’ home worker Millie (Shelley Duvall), new mysterious teenage helper […]

Oct, 27

Unstrung Heroes *** (1995, Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Nathan Watt, Maury Chaykin, Michael Richards) – Classic Movie Review 10,470

Director Diane Keaton’s 1995 drama Unstrung Heroes is an odd but sweet and good-hearted yarn about a 12-year-old lad (Nathan Watt), sent to live happily with his crazily eccentric uncles (Maury Chaykin and Michael Richards) […]

Oct, 27

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