Derek Winnert

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Spice World **½ (1997, Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 4349

If it’s Girl Power you really, really want [doesn’t that sound dated?], here’s the Fab Five who were then the Spice Girls pop group and a host of publicity-seeking stars to spice up your day. […]

Sep, 12

Summer Holiday ***½ (1963, Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, The Shadows, Ron Moody, Lionel Murton, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 3960

‘It’s the craziest Four-Way love affair that ever shook up the folks back home!’ Director Peter Yates’s 1963 traditional British wish-fulfilment fantasy musical Summer Holiday is a lively and engaging vehicle for the 22-year-old Cliff […]

Jul, 02

The Pursuit of Happyness *** (2006, Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith) – Classic Movie Review 3834

Will Smith stars with his real-life son Jaden Smith as a father named Christopher ‘Chris’ Gardner facing ruin with his little kid in director Gabriele Muccino’s evidently sincere and well-meaning 2006 true-story heart-warmer. It is 1981 and Gardner […]

Jun, 10

The Trip to Bountiful **** (1985, Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay) – Classic Movie Review 3247

Geraldine Page is magnificent in director Peter Masterson’s 1985 guaranteed four-hankie weepie, based on the Fifties Horton Foote play produced on American TV and on Broadway (with Lillian Gish). Three cheers for the redoubtable Page who, […]

Jan, 07

23 Paces to Baker Street *** (1956, Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 3125

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 suspense thriller is slick and enjoyable if slightly over-extended feeling at 103 minutes. Nigel Balchin adapts the novel by author Philip MacDonald, writer of the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and […]

Dec, 03

Bus Stop **** (1956, Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O’Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, Hope Lange) – Classic Movie Review 2,654

The static but enjoyable 1956 movie version of William Inge’s classic play Bus Stop showcases Marilyn Monroe’s appealing turn as vulnerable saloon singer Chérie. Oscar-nominated Don Murray is nearly as good as Bo Decker, the […]

Jun, 28

The Black Cat ***** (1934, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 2,504

Hungarian psychiatrist Dr Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) plots a hideous revenge on his old friend Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) in the weird and wonderful 1934 horror movie The Black Cat. Director Edgar G Ulmer’s weird […]

May, 20

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