Derek Winnert

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The Rage of Paris *** (1938, Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer, Helen Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8481

The snappy acting by Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer and Helen Broderick is a treat and director Henry Koster makes the time whiz by (and it is only 78 minutes) in […]

May, 18

Bright Lights, Big City ** (1988, Michael J Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Frances Sternhagen, Dianne Wiest, John Houseman, Jason Robards, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 8419

Director James Bridges’s 1988 topical drama Bright Lights, Big City stars a too lightweight and too young-looking Michael J Fox as the anti-hero of this careful and meticulous but rather tedious screen version of Jay […]

May, 01

Nighthawks *** (1981, Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Nigel Davenport, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta) – Classic Movie Review 8396

Sylvester Stallone stars in Nighthawks (1981) as New York City street cop Deke DaSilva, who reluctantly takes on the job of terminating international terrorist Heymar ‘Wulfgar’ Reinhardt (played by Rutger Hauer) when he blows up a […]

Apr, 24

Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] **** (1985, Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Kevin Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 8388

Director Michael Dinner’s 1985 Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] is a fresh and funny film about Catholic high school life at St Basil’s Catholic Boys’ Prep School in Brooklyn in 1965 that manages to put […]

Apr, 23

A Fine Madness *** (1966, Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg) – Classic Movie Review 8370

Director Irvin Kershner’s funny, appealingly whimsical 1966 screwball comedy A Fine Madness stars Sean Connery as a crazy New York City-based radical poet called Samson Shillitoe, and Joanne Woodward co-stars as his brash waitress wife […]

Apr, 16

Maniac Cop *** (1988, Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon) – Classic Movie Review 8299

Larry Cohen writes and produces (though perhaps he should also have directed) director William Lustig’s cult film Maniac Cop, which tells an intriguing and involving tale about a brutal killer on the loose on the […]

Mar, 26

Stranger Than Paradise *** (1984, John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson) – Classic Movie Review 8250

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 black and white road-movie comedy drama Stranger than Paradise is aimless yet charming. It turns a lazily hipster eye on two New York deadbeats Willie and Eddie (played by John Lurie […]

Mar, 17

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