Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "illegal immigrant"

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Dirty Pretty Things **** (2002, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo) – Classic Movie Review 6104

Director Stephen Frears’s 2002 British crime drama thriller is one of his successes. Chiwetel Ejiofor shines as Okwe, an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London working both as a cabbie and in a hotel, in Stephen Frears’s […]

Oct, 17

The Border ***½ (1982, Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 5275

Director Tony Richardson’s 1982 desperately dour and downbeat thriller stars Jack Nicholson as a bored and corrupt US Border Patrol agent called Charlie Smith, who is guarding the Mexican border. He operates on the fuzzy side […]

Apr, 10

A Most Wanted Man *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review

In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]

Sep, 11

The Guru (Jimi Mistry, Heather Graham) – Classic Film Review 1049

Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s 2002 comedy is a lot of good-natured, easy-going fun. There’s no mystery here! Jimi Mistry’s got a hit on his hands as Ramu Gupta, a young Indian dance teacher who […]

Apr, 04

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