Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Hard *** (1998, Noel Palomaria, Malcolm Moorman, Charles Lanyer) – Classic Movie Review 12,720

A gay serial killer plays cat and mouse with a rookie gay police detective in the R-rated 1998 thriller film Hard. Unusually, it is both grisly and thoughtful. ‘A cop with a secret. A killer […]

Nov, 17 · in Reviews

Sanctuary [Freistatt] **** (2015, Louis Hofmann, Alexander Held, Stephan Grossmann, Katharina Lorenz, Max Riemelt, Uwe Bohm, Langston Uibel) – Classic Movie Review 12,719

The 2015 German film Sanctuary [Freistatt] is a complex, excellent drama, with Louis Hofmann brilliant as earnest young tearaway Wolfgang, who is sent off by his family in summer 1968 to the awful Church Welfare […]

Nov, 16 · in Reviews

The Iron Maiden ** (1963, Michael Craig, Alan Hale Jr, Jeff Donnell, Cecil Parker, Noel Purcell, Roland Culver, Anne Helm) – Classic Movie Review 12,718

Gerald Thomas’s 1963 British Eastmancolor film The Iron Maiden stars Michael Craig, Alan Hale Jr, Jeff Donnell, Cecil Parker and Anne Helm in this traction engine comedy set against the background of the dawn of […]

Nov, 15

The Uncle *** (1966, Robert Duncan, Christopher Ariss, Rupert Davies, Brenda Bruce, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 12,717

The 1966 British black and white drama film The Uncle is an amusing and heart-warming tale of two seven-year-olds (Robert Duncan, Christopher Ariss), one of whom turns out to be the uncle of the other, […]

Nov, 14

Men in the Nude [Férfiakt] *** (2006, László Gálffi, Dávid Szabó, Éva Kerekes) – Classic Movie Review 12,716

The 2006 Hungarian romantic drama film Men in the Nude [Férfiakt] follows a troublesome gay affair between a married middle-aged writer and a streetwise teenage hustler. They are chalk and cheese. It isn’t going to […]

Nov, 13

Juste une question d’amour [Just a Question of Love] *** (2000, Cyrille Thouvenin, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié. Éva Darlan, Caroline Veyt) – Classic Movie Review 12,715

The 2000 French TV drama film Juste une question d’amour [Just a Question of Love] follows the romance of two young gay men, who are having a conflict over whether Laurent should come out to […]

Nov, 12

Swallows and Amazons *** (1974, Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser, Brenda Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 12,714

The 1974 British film Swallows and Amazons stars Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser and Brenda Bruce. EMI’s pleasantly old-fashioned film, based on Arthur Ransome’s 1930 children’s classic novel, should appeal to grown-ups as well as its […]

Nov, 11

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