Derek Winnert

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Stitch! The Movie **½ (2003, voices of Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames) – Classic Movie Review 4824

Hawaii ya? Dr Jumba (voice of David Ogden Stiers) is abducted and other aliens are found, while cute little alien Stitch tries to be at home with little girl Lilo’s Hawaiian neighbours. Disney’s daffy, pleasant […]

Dec, 30

The Big Bounce * (2004, Owen Wilson, Sara Foster, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, Vinnie Jones, Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson, Bebe Neuwirth, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 4460

Director George Armitage’s 2004 remake of the Ryan O’Neal-Leigh Taylor-Young 1969 caper thriller The Big Bounce is a total non-event and no better – actually worse – than the vapid, long forgotten original. With an […]

Oct, 06

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ** (2016, Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Stephen Root, Stephanie Faracy, Alice Wetterlund, Sugar Lyn Beard, Sam Richardson) – Movie Review

Partying twenty-something airhead brothers Mike and Dave Stangle (Adam Devine, Zac Efron) are ordered by their exasperated parents (Stephen Root, Stephanie Faracy) to find nice girl dates to attend their sister Jeanie (Sugar Lyn Beard)’s wedding. […]

Aug, 11

Gidget Goes Hawaiian ** (1961, James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 3385

A pleasant Deborah Walley takes over from Sandra Dee as the 15-year-old ‘girl midget’ Gidget in this modest but nice-looking first sequel to Gidget (1959). And, guess what?, she’s off to Hawaii on vacation with […]

Feb, 20

Air Force **** (1943, John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, John Ridgley, George Tobias, James Brown, Harry Carey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3172

Director Howard Hawks’s extremely well made and rousing 1943 patriotic wartime flag-waving drama about the American crew of an Air Force Boeing B17 bomber named the Mary Ann on a Far East mission in 1941 […]

Dec, 19

Blue Hawaii *** (1961, Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 2605

Director Norman Taurog’s 1961 musical romantic comedy Blue Hawaii stars Elvis Presley as Chadwick ‘Chad’ Gates, a just-demobbed soldier who returns to Honolulu. Mum wants him to follow in his father’s footsteps and take over management […]

Jun, 15

50 First Dates *** (2004, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider) – Classic Movie Review 641

After The Wedding Singer, Adam Sandler keeps his second movie date with Drew Barrymore with director Peter Segal’s 50 First Dates in 2004 and it’s a new red-letter day. Sandler plays a Hawaii aquarium vet […]

Jan, 07

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