Derek Winnert

Reviews

The File of the Golden Goose * (1969, Yul Brynner, Edward Woodward, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 12,736

Sam Wanamaker’s 1969 thriller film The File of the Golden Goose stars Yul Brynner as a US Treasury spy chasing a ring of counterfeiters called the Golden Goose in Britain, aided and abetted by London […]

Dec, 01

Red Istanbul [Rosso Istanbul] **½ (2017, Halit Ergenç, Nejat İşler, Tuba Büyüküstün, Serra Yılmaz, Mehmet Günsür, Zerrin Tekindor, Reha Özcan) – Classic Movie Review 12,735

Ferzan Özpetek’s subtle, smouldering 2017 film Red Istanbul stars Halit Ergenç as a Turkish writer who relives his relationships with friends, family and past loves when he returns to Istanbul to help a famous director […]

Dec, 01

Loose Cannons [Mine Vaganti] *** (2010, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alessandro Preziosi, Nicole Grimaudo, Lunetta Savino, Ennio Fantastichini, Ilaria Occhini) – Classic Movie Review 12,734

Riccardo Scamarcio stars in Ferzan Özpetek’s 2010 Italian comedy film Loose Cannons [Mine Vaganti] as pasta magnate’s gay son Tommaso, who decides to return to come out to his narrow-minded family in Southern Italy. His […]

Dec, 01

Mimi ** (1935, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Gertrude Lawrence, Diana Napier) – Classic Movie Review 12,733

The well-heeled 1935 British romantic film Mimi is based on Henri Murger’s 1851 novel La Vie de Bohème, and stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Gertrude Lawrence. Director Paul L Stein’s 1935 British black and white […]

Nov, 30

Being 17 [Quand on a 17 ans] **** (2016, Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret) – Classic Movie Review 12,732

André Téchiné’s 2016 French romantic drama Being 17 is a complex, emotional and mature film, with the focus on two teenage boys (Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila) and their story, but Sandrine Kiberlain deservedly gets […]

Nov, 29

Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] *** (2017, Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée, Catherine Mouchet, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert) – Classic Movie Review 12,731

Anne Fontaine’s 2017 French drama film Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] stars the then rising French star Finnegan Oldfield as Marvin, a gay actor in Paris struggling to write and perform a theatre […]

Nov, 28

The Bank Raiders ** (1958, Peter Reynolds, Sandra Dorne, Sydney Tafler, Lloyd Lamble) – Classic Movie Review 12,730

The serviceable and efficient 1958 British support crime thriller film The Bank Raiders focuses on Terry (Peter Reynolds), a petty criminal who signs up as getaway driver with a gang boss (Sydney Tafler)’s band of […]

Nov, 28

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