Derek Winnert

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Good Burger ½ (1997, Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Ron Lester) – Classic Movie Review 3,885

Good Burger is the movie that memorably cleared the London film critics preview theatre back in 1997 and thereafter was known as Bad Burger. Now there’s a sequel! Director Brian Robbins’s excruciating 1997 juvenile teen […]

Jun, 18

Strike Up the Band ***½ (1940, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, June Preisser, William Tracy, Larry Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 3611

Director Busby Berkeley’s pleasing 1940 musical is a pleasant re-run for the talented team from Babes in Arms (1939), keeping only George Gershwin’s title song from his 1928 Broadway show. In a supposedly new story that […]

Apr, 24

The Gumball Rally **** (1976, Michael Sarrazin, Tim McIntire, Gary Busey, Raul Julia) – Classic Movie Review 3327

Director Chuck (Charles) Bail’s 1976 action comedy is an infectiously entertaining caper in which a bored executive organises a top-speed coast-to-coast rally from New York to Long Beach. A gang of eccentric drivers from across […]

Feb, 05

X + Y ***½ (2104, Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang) – Movie Review

X + Y = a really rather good spirit-lifting British movie. It is spurred on to win by a lovely performance by Asa Butterfield as Nathan, a socially awkward English teenage maths prodigy who lands a […]

Mar, 11

Blow Dry *** (2001, Natasha Richardson, Alan Rickman, Josh Hartnett, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 1282

Written by Simon Beaufoy, director Paddy Breathnach’s 2001 movie is an often hilarious, outrageous, warm-hearted comedy about the things everyone wants in life – love, happiness and great hair. Beaufoy wrote The Full Monty and […]

Jun, 02

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