Derek Winnert

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ***½ (2014, Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson, Ricky Gervais) – Movie Review

The 2014 comedy film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb stars Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson, and Ricky Gervais. The museum gang come to London for […]

Dec, 17 · in Reviews

The Animal ** (2001, Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 1972

Director Luke Greenfield provides a moderate 2001 comedy star vehicle for Rob Schneider as wimpy Marvin Mange, who is injured in a car crash. He thinks his lifelong dreams of becoming a cop are over, until […]

Dec, 17 · in Reviews

Father Christmas **** (1991, voice of Mel Smith) – Classic Movie Review 1971

Mel Smith provides the titular voice of Santa in the British 1991 seasonal animation film joy Father Christmas, based on the Raymond Briggs stories. The late Mel Smith provides the voice of the titular Father […]

Dec, 17

When the Wind Blows **** (1986, voices of Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 1970

In this bleak but beautifully produced and moving 1987 animated feature from director Jimmy T Murakami and Raymond Briggs, the artist and writer responsible for The Snowman, global nuclear war and its after-effects are seen […]

Dec, 17

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ***** (1986, Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara) – Classic Movie Review 1969

  A delightful Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris Bueller, an American high school wise guy who is determined to have a day off from school, in writer-director John Hughes’s quintessential eighties teen comedy. Funny, charming and […]

Dec, 17

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo * (2005, Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbé, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 1968

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, the dodgy and pathetic 2005 sequel to Rob Schneider’s excellently silly 1999 bad-taste farce Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, is probably best avoided. This one is unfortunately unfunny as well as vulgar […]

Dec, 16

The Hot Chick ** (2002, Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Rachel McAdams, Eric Christian Olsen, Matthew Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 1967

Co-writer/director Tom Brady’s crude and limp 2002 body-swap fantasy comedy stars Rob Schneider as a crook called Clive Maxtone, who trades places with a hot high-school cheerleader, Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams). She’s a sexy and […]

Dec, 16

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