Derek Winnert

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House II: The Second Story ** (1987, Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano) – Classic Movie Review 8142

There is too much slapdash comedy in director Ethan Wiley’s 1987 House II: The Second Story, the even dafter yet still popular haunted mansion horror-thriller sequel to the 1986 hit House. It motors on a […]

Feb, 18

The Finishing Touch *** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 7409

‘The story of two boys who went to school for nine years – and finished in the first reader.’ Director Clyde A Bruckman’s and producer Hal Roach’s 1928 black and white 20-minute two-reeler short comedy silent […]

Aug, 06

Summer Magic *** (1963, Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Deborah Walley, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7353

Director James Neilson’s 1963 teen movie Summer Magic stars Walt Disney’s number one star at the time, Hayley Mills, who in real life grows up to celebrate her 17th birthday (on 18 April 1963) but […]

Jul, 27

HouseSitter *** (1992, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat, Peter MacNicol) – Classic Movie Review 6899

Director Frank Oz’s 1992 fantasy romantic comedy HouseSitter is uneven, but it is always an amiable and inoffensive entertainment, and in its best stretches it is very funny. Steve Martin stars as Newton Davis, a […]

Apr, 08

Mom and Dad ** (2017, Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur) – Movie Review

Writer-director Brian Taylor’s Mom and Dad has its charms, though it is far from charming. To be fair, it doesn’t set out to be charming but nevertheless to charm you with its whacked-out sense (?) […]

Mar, 11

Neighbors * (1981, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty, Kathryn Walker) – Classic Movie Review 6475

The Blues Brothers stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd team up again for director John G Avildsen’s surprisingly feebly written (by the talented screenplay writer Larry Gelbart) 1981 movie tale of suburban discord and the […]

Dec, 27

The Fall of the House of Usher [Revenge in the House of Usher] * (1983, Howard Vernon, Antonio Mayans, Lina Romay, Fata Morgana, Daniel White) – Classic Movie Review 6385

Jesús Franco [Jess Franco] acts as writer/ producer/ director/ musician and cameraman in his desperately cheap and muddled, but cheerful and good-looking 1983 Spanish film version of the Edgar Allan Poe story, originally called El Hundimiento […]

Dec, 10

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