Derek Winnert

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Desperate Living *** (1977, Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4100

John Waters’s 1977 gross-out bad taste comedy stars Mink Stole as desperately unhappy, crazy rich housewife Peggy Gravel who smothers her hubby to death, helped by her enormously tubby maid Grizelda Brown (Jean Hill), who […]

Jul, 30

Female Trouble *** (1974, Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey) – Classic Movie Review 4099

John Waters is writer, producer, photographer and director for this incredibly cheaply made, utterly tasteless, totally outrageous 1974 satirical comedy from his early prime. Waters hitches up with his larger-than-life and twice as naughty drag […]

Jul, 30

The Dresser *** (1983, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 4079

Producer-director Peter Yates turns Ronald Harwood’s 1980 hit play about veteran barnstorming-style ham Shakespearean actor-manager and his camp personal assistant dresser into the 1983 British film The Dresser, with Harwood writing his own screenplay. The […]

Jul, 25

Like It Is *** (1998, Steve Bell, Ian Rose, Roger Daltrey, Dani Behr) – Classic Movie Review 4036

Director Paul Oremland’s 1998 British ‘coming-out’ tale is occasionally hesitant but overall surprisingly entertaining and credible. Bare-knuckle fighter Craig (impressively played by British amateur featherweight champion Steve Bell) swaps his violent life in Blackpool’s underworld […]

Jul, 17

Like Grains of Sand [Nagisa no Shindobaddo] *** (1995, Yoshinori Okada, Kôta Kusano, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Takada, Kouji Yamaguchi) – Classic Movie Review 4035

Yoshinori Okada and Kôta Kusano star in writer-director Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s intense, subtle and moving 1995 Japanese gay film about the complex relationships between a close-knit group of four teenage friends and focusing on a high school […]

Jul, 17

The Detective *** (1968, Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman) – Classic Movie Review 3998

Gordon Douglas’s second thriller in row of three finds Frank Sinatra starring as troubled New York City Detective Joe Leland, in the 1968 film The Detective. It’s a cop movie, not a private eye thriller, […]

Jul, 11

Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] *** (1978, Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler) – Classic Movie Review 3,950

Dirk Bogarde stars in German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 English-language film Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] about Hermann Hermann, a 1930s Russian immigrant chocolate magnate businessman in Germany who begins to fall apart and […]

Jun, 29

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