Derek Winnert

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Apartment Zero ** (1988, Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 10,485

Colin Firth stars as Adrian LeDuc, an uptight, lonely British movie fan who is forced to rent his insane mother’s room and accepts a strange American seducer, Jack Carney (Hart Bochner), as a house-guest in […]

Oct, 30

King of Peking ** (2017, Jun Zhao, Wang Naixun, Qing Han) – Movie Review

Australian writer-director Sam Voutas’s comedy drama is filmed in the Mandarin language and set in Nineties Beijing, where former projectionist Big Wong (Jun Zhao), now forced to work as a cinema janitor, ropes his feisty little […]

Sep, 25

Sherlock Jr ***** (1924, Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 5106

Director and star Buster Keaton’s 1924 film is an unassailable silent comedy classic from one of the greatest comedians of any era. The Great Stone Face plays a projectionist who dreams of detective success to […]

Mar, 05

Splendor **** (1989, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady) – Classic Movie Review 4048

Italian writer-director Ettore Scola’s affectingly nostalgic 1989 salute to the cinema is as good and glorious as the much more lauded Cinema Paradiso (1988). Marcello Mastroianni is splendid as Jordan, the owner and manager of the […]

Jul, 19

Clash by Night **** (1952, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Andes, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 2597

Director Fritz Lang’s heated 1952 film noir melodrama Clash by Night, based on the Clifford Odets play as adapted by writer Alfred Hayes, is rivetingly played by a great vintage cast. Barbara Stanwyck stars as […]

Jun, 14

Last Action Hero *** (1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O’Brien, F Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance) – Classic Movie Review 2582

Producer-director John McTiernan’s comedy sci-fi action adventure thriller was supposed to be the 1993 summer blockbuster but Jurassic Park stole much of its thunder and its business. Unfairly, and unexpectedly, it severely damaged Arnold Schwarzenegger’s box-office […]

Jun, 10

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