Derek Winnert

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Meatballs *** (1979, Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Kristine DeBell, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Cindy Girling, Todd Hoffman, Keith Knight, Chris Makepeace) – Classic Movie Review 6519

Director Ivan Reitman hits it big in 1979 with his first mainstream movie, an amiable if fairly crass teen comedy about a load of nincompoops enjoying summer on a holiday camp – a well tried and […]

Jan, 04

Sex Kittens Go to College ** (1960, Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, Mijanou Bardot, Mickey Shaughnessy, Louis Nye, Pamela Mason, Martin Milner) – Classic Movie Review 6318

‘You Never SAW A Student Body Like This!’ Ah hem, yes. Director Albert Zugsmith’s demented 1960 American exploitation sex comedy film Sex Kittens Go to College stars the memorable Mamie Van Doren as Doctor Mathilda […]

Nov, 26

Marjorie Morningstar ** (1958, Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Edd Byrnes, George Tobias, Jesse White, Paul Picerni, Ruta Lee, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 6317

Director Irving Rapper’s intriguing and glossy but uncomfortable 1958 romantic drama film adaptation of The Winds of War writer Herman Wouk’s sincere novel – surprisingly at the time the most-read book since Gone with the Wind – […]

Nov, 26

Beauty and the Beast *** (2017, Dan Stevens, Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline) – Movie Review

Director Bill Condon’s fairy tale musical is romantic, warm and good hearted. It has a charming, sweet nature that is easy to like and hard to take against. It is slickly and smoothly made in […]

Mar, 03

American Pie Presents Band Camp ** (2005, Eugene Levy, Tad Hilgenbrink, Arielle Kebbel, Chris Owen) – Classic Movie Review 4522

Happily Eugene Levy recreates his hilarious series role as Jim’s dad Mr Levenstein in director Steve Rash’s moderately funny low-budget ($7 million) 2005 third sequel to the blockbuster teen  comedy American Pie (1999). In the slapstick main role, Tad […]

Oct, 24

Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343

Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]

Sep, 11

The Army of Shadows [L’Armée des Ombres] ***** (1969, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 3799

Writer-producer-director Jean-Pierre Melville pays tribute to the French Resistance he worked for in World War Two with this extremely engrossing, powerful and challenging 1969 epic account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, set in 1942. Lino […]

Jun, 04

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