Derek Winnert

Can’t Hardly Wait ***½ (1998, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Seth Green, Peter Facinelli) – Classic Movie Review 1966

Writer-directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan’s multi-character 1998 teenage comedy romance Can’t Hardly Wait focuses on American high-schoolers on the last night before graduation who naturally can’t hardly wait for their lives to begin for real. In […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

Not Another Teen Movie * (2001, Chyler Leigh, Jaime Pressly, Chris Evans, Eric Christian Olsen, Mia Kirshner) – Classic Movie Review 1965

A popular US high school jock is challenged by his friends to turn the school’s ugliest pupil into prom-queen material. Oh, no, not another teen movie send up! At the John Hughes High School, hunky […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

Le Rayon Vert [The Green Ray] **** (1986, Marie Rivière, Vincent Gauthier, Béatrice Romand, Rosette, Amira Chemakhi ) – Classic Movie Review 1961

Marie Rivière stars as a 20something Parisian secretary singleton yearning for the true love that’s eluded her so far. The emotionally vulnerable vegetarian Delphine is depressed when she’s forced to spend her summer holiday alone […]

Dec, 16

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd * (2003, Derek Richardson, Eric Christian Olsen, Eugene Levy) – Classic Movie Review 1964

Two incredibly silly high-school boys called Harry and Lloyd get unwittingly mixed up in the scam when their mean School Principal conspires with the dinner lady to perpetrate a fraud. Derek Richardson (as Harry Dunne) […]

Dec, 16

Dumb and Dumber ** (1994, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly) – Classic Movie Review 1963

Or Jim and Jeff’s no brainer. Writer-directors Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly’s 1994 comedy blockbuster stars Jim Carrey and Daniels as two idiots with incredibly bad haircuts who get mixed up in a kidnap plot. […]

Dec, 16

A Christmas Story **** (1983, Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1962

Some people put this up there as their all-time favourite Christmas movie. Certainly director Bob Clark’s 1983 Christmas classic is a thoroughly enjoyable, sweetly beguiling movie of reminiscences of a boy growing up in an […]

Dec, 16

Calendar Girl **½ (1993, Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, Jerry O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 1960

Director John Whitesell’s Fifties-set 1993 youth-oriented coming-of-age comedy stars Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds and Jerry O’Connell as late teens who go to Hollywood to fulfil the dream of meeting Marilyn Monroe. One summer holiday, cocky Roy Darpinian […]

Dec, 14

@wpshower

Feeds

Susbscribe to our awesome Blog Feed or Comments Feed