Derek Winnert

Car Trouble ** (1986, Julie Walters, Ian Charleson, Vincent Riotta, Stratford Johns, Hazel O’Connor, Dave Hill) – Classic Movie Review 9870

Director David Green’s 1986 Car Trouble is a bizarre, wacky little British comedy of frustration, which tries hard to raise laughs, and sometimes succeeds, and should probably be cherished a little since it comes from […]

Jun, 06 · in Reviews

Car Wash **** (1976, Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye, Darrow Igus) – Classic Movie Review 9869

‘Hey, it’s a ’70s thing! ‘ The 1976 blaxploitation comedy Car Wash is an appealing, zany farce, with director Michael Schultz giving his largely black cast plenty of room to enjoy prankish japes around the […]

Jun, 06 · in Reviews

Twinky [Lola] [London Affair] * (1970, Charles Bronson, Susan George, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Lionel Jeffries, Kay Medford, Paul Ford, Orson Bean, Eric Barker) – Classic Movie Review 9868

Director Richard Donner’s 1970 sex comedy drama Twinky [Lola] [London Affair] stars Charles Bronson as dissipated middle-aged porn novel writer Scott Wardman, who has a Swinging Sixties fling with London teenager Twinky (Susan George). She’s […]

Jun, 05

Robin Hood * (1991, Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jürgen Prochnow, Edward Fox, Jeroen Krabbé, Owen Teale) – Classic Movie Review 9867

Director John Irvin’s 1991 Robin Hood is a bleak-toned, extremely gloomy version of the tale, with dour, lacklustre performances from an interesting cast and dark-hued visuals in Jason Lehel’s cinematography. Saddled with a poor script […]

Jun, 05

Rock Rock Rock! ** (1956, Tuesday Weld, Teddy Randazzo, Alan Freed, Frankie Lymon, Chuck Berry) – Classic Movie Review 9866

Director Will Price’s 1956 film Rock Rock Rock! stars little Tuesday Weld (only 13 in her screen début) in this thinly and poorly plotted but great sounding Fifties rock ‘n’ roll music nostalgia extravaganza. When […]

Jun, 05

Twist Around the Clock ** (1961, Chubby Checker, Dion DiMucci, Vicki Spencer, The Marcels, Clay Cole) – Classic Movie Review 9865

‘It’s twist-errific! – the first full-length movie about the twist!’ Twisting replaces rocking for Oscar Rudolph’s soppy but happy Sixties musical drama Twist Around the Clock (1961) in canny producer Sam Katzman’s riposte to his […]

Jun, 04

Don’t Knock the Twist ** (1962, Chubby Checker, Gene Chandler, Vic Dana) Classic Movie Review 9864

Chubby Checker and the twist are in the spotlight again in director Oscar Rudolph’s 1962 black and white dance craze musical film Don’t Knock the Twist, the sequel to the 1961 smash hit Twist Around […]

Jun, 04

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