Derek Winnert

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Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine * (1965, Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Fred Clark, Susan Hart) – Classic Movie Review 4225

This ridiculous Sixties parody sci-fi comedy wastes Vincent Price, who shows his always eager-to-please good nature in his readiness to appear in absolutely anything. Price relishes hugely over-playing the mad doctor Goldfoot, who makes girlie robots […]

Aug, 24

Spaceballs ** (1987, Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten) – Classic Movie Review 4043

Co-writer/co-producer/director/ star Mel Brooks’s bawdy 1987 movie sci-fi send-up and spoof of Star Wars is a slack but amiable series of sight gags and verbal jokes, most of them not exactly hilarious but some of them just […]

Jul, 18

High Anxiety **** (1977, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 1940

Billed as a ‘Psycho-comedy’, co-writer director Mel Brooks’s engagingly hectic and hilarious 1977 Alfred Hitchcock spoof is a warm, knowing and affectionate toast to the Master of Suspense. This is a delightful companion piece to Brooks’s […]

Dec, 09

Carry On Up the Khyber **** (1968, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Roy Castle, Terry Scott, Angela Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1134

The 16th Carry On film from 1968 Carry On Up the Khyber is easily one of the finest, delivering a hilarious quota of great fun as the team take to India in the 1890s and […]

Apr, 22

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