Derek Winnert

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls *** (1970, Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2866

Director Russ Meyer’s legendary, infamous 1970 movie is a cult classic that entertains all lovers of enjoyably bad movies. Lusty porn film-maker Meyer heads for the mainstream with this camp and hilarious bad-taste sex and […]

Aug, 30 · in Articles

The Love Bug **** (1968, Dean Jones, David Tomlinson, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 2865

Director Robert Stevenson’s delightful 1968 children’s movie is a highly entertaining, totally endearing Walt Disney classic adventure about cute VW Beetle car Herbie motoring along with a heart and a brain. Clever chaps those German auto […]

Aug, 30 · in Articles

Freaky Friday ***½ (1976, Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 2863

Director Gary Nelson’s warm-hearted 1976 movie is a fondly remembered Seventies hit generation-swap comedy from the Walt Disney studio. Jodie Foster stars as Annabel Andrews, who exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her mom Ellen (Barbara […]

Aug, 30

Freaky Friday *** (2003, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 2864

The Walt Disney studio enjoyably remakes its fondly remembered 1976 hit and 1995 TV movie, generation-swap, with Lindsay Lohan starring as Anna Coleman, who magically exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her stressed-out single mom Tess Coleman (Jamie […]

Aug, 29

The Parent Trap *** (1961, Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 2862

Writer-director David Swift’s inventive and amusing 1961 Walt Disney live-action comedy-adventure The Parent Trap tells the story of twin sisters who meet for the first time on a summer holiday and decide to try to […]

Aug, 29

The Parent Trap ** (1998, Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2861

Director Nancy Meyers’s 1998 remake for Walt Disney of its own 1961 Hayley Mills hit The Parent Trap stars a pre-troubled era young Lindsay Lohan. It is based on the 1949 novel Das Doppelte Löttchen […]

Aug, 29

Home Alone 3 ** (1997, Alex D Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen) – Classic Movie Review 2859

The whole of the original Home Alone team is absent for director Raja Gosnell’s third, unrelated 1997 episode. This time a different lad, eight-year-old Alex Pruitt (Alex D Linz), is (again improbably) left abandoned at home alone […]

Aug, 29

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