Derek Winnert

The Moon Is Blue ** (1953, William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara) – Classic Movie Review 10,090

Director Otto Preminger’s then frank-speaking 1953 age gap romantic comedy The Moon Is Blue turned the air blue and ruffled the feathers of the censors of the day with words like sex, virgins, mistress and […]

Jul, 26 · in Reviews

This Happy Feeling ** (1958, Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor, Troy Donahue,) – Classic Movie Review 10,089

John Saxon won the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer – Male as Bill Tremaine in writer-director Blake Edwards’s age gap comedy This Happy Feeling (1958), which is based on the play For Love or […]

Jul, 26 · in Reviews

Fletch Lives * (1989, Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini) – Classic Movie Review 10,088

Fletch Lives… but the movie dies. Director Michael Ritchie’s 1989 comedy-thriller Fletch Lives is an irritating, abravive sequel to the very popular 1985 comedy-thriller Fletch, with Chevy Chase back as Irwin ‘Fletch’ Fletcher, the fast-talking […]

Jul, 26

Fletch *** (1985, Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, , Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini, Kenneth Mars, M Emmet Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 10,087

Director Michael Ritchie’s very popular 1985 comedy-thriller Fletch stars Chevy Chase as Irwin M ‘Fletch’ Fletcher, an obnoxious, wisecracking reporter who assumes all manner of disguises to expose a Los Angeles drugs ring. Fletch is […]

Jul, 26

Salon Kitty * (1976, Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy) – Classic Movie Review 10,086

Helmut Berger stars as Helmut Wallenberg and Ingrid Thulin plays Kitty Kellermann, who runs a brothel for soldiers in Nazi Germany, in director Tinto Brass’s notorious, controversial 1976 soft core erotic-war-drama film Salon Kitty. It […]

Jul, 25

Brain Damage ** (1988, Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry) – Classic Movie Review 10,085

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter, of Basket Case (1982) fame, goes one step further into the realm of bad taste with this tale of a phallus-resembling parasite that locks into Brian (Rick Hearst)’s brain and injects him […]

Jul, 25

Frankenhooker * (1990, James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen) – Classic Movie Review 10,084

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter’s 1990 cult black comedy horror Frankenhooker is a zesty, enterprising and gleeful homage to Mary Shelley, the Frankenstein films and low-budget gore movies, mixing horror, gore and comedy, but it is fairly […]

Jul, 25

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