Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Little Nikita *** (1988, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Carolina Kava) – Classic Movie Review 4562

Director Richard Benjamin’s involving 1988 Cold War thriller stars Sidney Poitier and young River Phoenix as a sympathetic FBI man called Roy Parmenter and Jeff Grant, a teenage boy he helps out when it turns […]

Oct, 29 · in Reviews

I Love You to Death *** (1990, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves) – Classic Movie Review 4561

Director Lawrence Kasdan’s intriguing, semi-successful 1990 crime black comedy has a good start in that it boasts a fine ensemble of actors to make it work – Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, […]

Oct, 29 · in Reviews

Dogfight *** (1991, River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco) – Classic Movie Review 4,560

The 1991 comedy romantic drama film Dogfight stars River Phoenix in an offbeat, bittersweet tale as a 18-year old young marine who dates a frumpy waitress (Lili Taylor) for a dare. Director Nancy Savoca’s 1991 […]

Oct, 29

Silent Tongue ** (1993, River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney, Sheila Tousey) – Classic Movie Review 4559

Writer-director Sam Shepard’s intelligent, atmospheric, offbeat Western was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico, in spring 1992, but not released until 1994. It stars River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and Sheila Tousey. It is slow moving, but […]

Oct, 29

The Thing Called Love *** (1993, River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock) – Classic Movie Review 4558

Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1993 romantic comedy drama, with country music and a love triangle, is the 13th and last completed film of River Phoenix before his untimely death at the age of only 23. Phoenix plays […]

Oct, 29

Who Framed Roger Rabbit **** (1988, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Stubby Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 4,557

Live actors join the cartoon world of Toon Town as warm and jovial performances by Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd provide the human dimension for Robert Zemeckis’s exuberant and technically perfect 1988 film Who Framed […]

Oct, 29

The Black Room *** (1935, Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen, Thurston Hall, Katherine DeMille, John Buckler, Torben Meyer, Henry Kolker, Colin Tapley, Edward Van Sloan, Egon Brecher) – Classic Movie Review 4556

Boris Karloff grabs his chance to play a pair of cursed Jekyll-and-Hyde-style brothers in director Roy William Neill’s sleek and eerie 1935 Gothic chiller showcasing two of Boris’s most effective turns. Karloff really relishes playing both […]

Oct, 28

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