Derek Winnert

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Thursday’s Children **** (1954, dir Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1411

Director Lindsay Anderson’s rousing 21-minute 1954 British short documentary film about the education of deaf children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent, won the Academy Award in 1955 for Best Documentary Short Subject. […]

Jul, 09

Super Size Me **** (2004, Morgan Spurlock) – Classic Movie Review 1380

Crazy but canny documentary film-maker Morgan Spurlock puts his fit body to the test on a 30-day burger binge at McDonald’s: three Big Mac meals a day, always taking the Super Size if offered, in […]

Jun, 30

Elephant *** (2003, Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 1373

Two neo-Nazi high-school boys (Alex Frost, Eric Deulen) watch some Hitler rally newsreels, listen to Beethoven, then get kitted up in military gear and run amuck with a vast arsenal of weapons at their fictional […]

Jun, 29

The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1332

‘Moderation is a vastly over-rated virtue.’ – Miss Lilly Moffat. Director Irving Rapper directs Bette Davis in the 1945 drama The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher dismayed by the […]

Jun, 17

Big Fat Liar *** (2002, Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes) – Classic Movie Review 1275

Frankie Muniz, so good in TV’s Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006), is enjoyable here in director Shawn Levy’s amiable 2002 American teen comedy Big Fat Liar as a 14-year-old pathological liar and con artist named Jason […]

Jun, 01

Carry On Teacher ** (1959, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims) – Classic Film Review 1214

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1959 film is the third Carry On movie, whose high spirits are a bit held back by having an old-fashioned, all-too-conventional story. Still no doubt rooted in the 50s, the film has […]

May, 14

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix **** (2007, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Helena Bonham Carter, Imelda Staunton) – Classic Movie Review 1130

The 2007 fifth Harry Potter film, directed by David Yates and written by Michael Goldenberg, follows Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts as the Ministry of Magic is in denial of Lord Voldemort’s return. It’s satisfyingly dark […]

Apr, 21

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