Derek Winnert

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed *** (2023, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 12,656

Stephen Kijak’s timely and revelatory Altitude/ HBO documentary exploration of Hollywood and gay identity sheds some light on the life and death of iconic actor Rock Hudson. Lovely images but maybe there’s too much gossip […]

Sep, 28 · in Reviews

Screwed [Pihalla] *** (2017, Mikko Kauppila, Valtteri Lehtinen, Sanna Majuri, Juho Keskitalo) – Classic Movie Review 12,655

The charming 2017 Finnish gay coming of age drama film Screwed [Pihalla] stars Mikko Kauppila and Valtteri Lehtinen as Miku and Elias, who find themselves, and each other, during a summer in the Finnish countryside. […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

Golden Delicious *** (2022, Cardi Wong, Chris Carson, Parmiss Sehat, Ryan Mah) – Classic Movie Review 12,654

Jason Karman’s Canadian 2022 coming-of-age drama feature film debut Golden Delicious is an extremely nice and sweet, cheerful and romantic movie. The Chinese Canadian teenage hero Jake discovering his sexuality is winningly played by Cardi […]

Sep, 26

Wicked *** (1998, Julia Stiles, Chelsea Field, Louise Myrback, Michael Parks) – Classic Movie Review 12,653

‘Evil Never Looked So Good.’ Director Michael Steinberg’s gripping 1998 film Wicked stars Julia Stiles as a disturbed, manipulative teenage girl called Ellie Christianson, who is top of the police’s list of suspects when her mother […]

Sep, 25

Wicked As They Come [Portrait in Smoke] *** (1956, Arlene Dahl, Herbert Marshall, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 12,652

The 1956 British film noir Wicked As They Come [Portrait in Smoke] stars Arlene Dahl, hogging the spotlight as New York gold-digger Kathy Allen, who uses her looks as a ticket out of the slums, […]

Sep, 25

The Flesh of the Orchid [La Chair de L’Orchidée] *** (1975, Charlotte Rampling, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret, Valentina Cortese, Alida Valli, Bruno Cremer) – Classic Movie Review 12,651

Patrice Chéreau’s lurid 1975 French giallo thriller film The Flesh of the Orchid [La Chair de L’Orchidée] stars Charlotte Rampling as disturbed young Claire, whose wicked aunt plots to put her in an asylum and […]

Sep, 23

Cassandro ***½ (2023, Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Mark Vasconcellos, Andrea Pazmino, Yavor Vesselinov) – Classic Movie Review 12,650

Gael García Bernal has winning ways in the feel-good 2023 biopic Cassandro as Saúl Armendáriz, a gay wrestler from El Paso, Texas, who rises to world stardom in the early 1980s after he creates the […]

Sep, 22

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