Derek Winnert

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Forget Paris *** (1995, Billy Crystal, Debra Winger) – Classic Movie Review 1592

Written, directed by and starring Billy Crystal, this 1995 romantic comedy sees him as Mickey Gordon, a basketball referee who meets a French-speaking American (Debra Winger) in Paris, where he has arrived to bury his […]

Aug, 25

Coach Carter *** (2005, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1563

Director Thomas Carter’s 2005 sports drama stars Samuel L Jackson, who brings a lot of fire and passion to this rather clichéd and over-familiar real-life story of Ken Carter, a controversial basketball coach of the […]

Aug, 17

Bedazzled *** (2000, Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 930

Brendan Fraser plays a nerdy, socially awkward IT worker and computer buff who meets up with The Devil, a very seductive Satan. She grants him seven wishes in return for selling his soul, tempting him with […]

Mar, 17

The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815

Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]

Feb, 09

17 Again ***½ (2009, Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Melora Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 805

Matthew Perry co-stars in the 2009 teen fantasy comedy film 17 Again as the 37-year-old as Mike O’Donnell, who gets a second chance to be 17 again and is reincarnated as main star Zac Efron. […]

Feb, 08

Get Over It *** (2001, Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller, Colin Hanks, Martin Short, Shane West, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis) – Classic Movie Review 615

After being cruelly dumped, popular high school basketball star teen Berke Landers (played by Ben Foster) embarks on a series of hilarious attempts to win his girlfriend Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) back. That includes swapping his basketball […]

Jan, 03

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