With a name like River Phoenix, what’s a boy to do but wander? Which, as the young star of “Stand By Me” affirms, is the only life for him … “My family kept traveling, living out of a VW van. We’ve ...

The Summer of 1986 made me the horror fan I am today. It was the season of Aliens, The Fly, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, and Stand By Me. While the latter was released nationally on August ...

Rob Reiner once called directing “Stand by Me” the “richest experience” he had making a film, a big statement from a man who gave the world some of its most beloved movies. The 1986 film almost didn’t ...

Those words, uttered by Vern Tessio in “Stand By Me,” have become a calling card for the classic coming-of-age movie released in 1986. Next year, that childhood tale turns 40. “Stand By Me” opened ...