Derek Winnert

Stand by Me ***** (1986, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 396

Rob Reiner’s 1986 American coming-of-age film Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell as four kids who trek to find the body of a missing boy. River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell star in […]

Nov, 11 · in Reviews

Pink Narcissus *** (1971, Bobby Kendall, director James Bidgood) – Classic Film Review 395

James Bidgood began work on Pink Narcissus in 1963, making all the costumes, sets and props in his apartment with model Bobby Kendall. Bidgood refused to be credited after the film was edited against his wishes […]

Nov, 11 · in Reviews

The Pink Panther ***** (1963, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 394

The Pink Panther is actually a diamond – and so is Peter Sellers’s 1963 comedy gem. Peter Sellers’s immortal, beloved Inspector Jacques Clouseau character made his delightful début in 1963 here in The Pink Panther […]

Nov, 11

Dogma **** (1999, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Kevin Smith) – Classic Movie Review 393

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star as renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven, thus undoing the fabric of the universe, in the brilliant 1999 comedy film Dogma.  Matt Damon and Ben […]

Nov, 11

Rounders **** (1998, Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Malkovich, Gretchen Moll) – Classic Movie Review 392

‘Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.’ – Mike McDermott. John Dall, the director of Kill Me Again, The Last […]

Nov, 11

Lolita ***** (1962, James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 391

Director Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking 1962 film of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous controversial tale of an older man’s obsession for a young, under-age girl is a darkly comic study in obsession. It takes social realism and turns it […]

Nov, 11

Jamaica Inn *** (1939, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Marie Ney, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 390

Even if you think of the 1939 pirate malarkey adventure Jamaica Inn as a period whodunit, director Alfred Hitchcock is way off his usual territory with such melodramatic costume drama hokum based Daphne du Maurier’s […]

Nov, 10

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