Derek Winnert

The Smallest Show on Earth ***** (1957, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles) – Classic Movie Review 1643

Small is beautiful. Happy days with the ramshackle, debt-ridden old London fleapit cinema called The Bijou in the 1957 Brit comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Director Basil Dearden’s adorable 1957 British comedy classic […]

Sep, 07 · in Reviews

Rockets Galore! *** (1958, Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, Roland Culver, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, Ronnie Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 1642

Co-producer/ director Michael Relph’s belated 1958 sequel to the 1949 hit Whisky Galore! is friendly, pleasant and amusing, but not always sparkling and sometimes sluggish. Nice though it is, it doesn’t have quite the same spark […]

Sep, 06 · in Reviews

The Battle of the Sexes *** (1959, Peter Sellers, Constance Cummings, Robert Morley) Classic Movie Review 1641

  Portsmouth-born Peter Sellers relishes his delicately fake posh Edinburgh district Morningside accent and has a great time in a good part for him as Mr Martin, the mouse-like elderly accountant of an Edinburgh Scottish tweed weaving […]

Sep, 06

The Titfield Thunderbolt ***** (1953, Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson) – Classic Movie Review 1640

  English villagers take direct action when their rail line faces heartless government closure by running it themselves. Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing Studios comedy gem The Titfield Thunderbolt glories in the antique values of the […]

Sep, 06

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey *** (1991, Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, George Carlin, Pam Grier, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 1639

  Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are back in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey as Bill Preston and Ted Logan, the impressively thick, rock-loving dudes of the well received 1989 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. […]

Sep, 06

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure **** (1989, Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter) – Classic Movie Review 1638

Director Stephen Herek’s 1989 juvenile teen comedy classic showcases iconic, exuberantly overstated clowns’ performances by the talented Keanu Reeves (Ted Logan) and Alex Winter (Bill Preston). High school best buddies Bill & Ted are two […]

Sep, 06

This Is Spinal Tap ***** (1984, Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer) – Classic Movie Review 1637

Director Rob Reiner’s hysterical 1984 ‘rockumentary’ send-up of heavy metal bands hits the target bull’s eye. It gleefully uses improvised performances and fake documentary film-making to chronicle the catastrophic American tour of England’s legendary but troubled rock […]

Sep, 06

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