Derek Winnert

Reviews

Wicked As They Come [Portrait in Smoke] *** (1956, Arlene Dahl, Herbert Marshall, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 12,652

The 1956 British film noir Wicked As They Come [Portrait in Smoke] stars Arlene Dahl, hogging the spotlight as New York gold-digger Kathy Allen, who uses her looks as a ticket out of the slums, […]

Sep, 25

The Flesh of the Orchid [La Chair de L’Orchidée] *** (1975, Charlotte Rampling, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret, Valentina Cortese, Alida Valli, Bruno Cremer) – Classic Movie Review 12,651

Patrice Chéreau’s lurid 1975 French giallo thriller film The Flesh of the Orchid [La Chair de L’Orchidée] stars Charlotte Rampling as disturbed young Claire, whose wicked aunt plots to put her in an asylum and […]

Sep, 23

Cassandro ***½ (2023, Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Mark Vasconcellos, Andrea Pazmino, Yavor Vesselinov) – Classic Movie Review 12,650

Gael García Bernal has winning ways in the feel-good 2023 biopic Cassandro as Saúl Armendáriz, a gay wrestler from El Paso, Texas, who rises to world stardom in the early 1980s after he creates the […]

Sep, 22

The Wounded Man [L’Homme Blessé] ***½ (1983, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 12,649

Patrice Chéreau’s controversial, heavy-weight 1983 French film The Wounded Man [l’Homme Blessé] stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno in a kind of obsessive love story between a teenage boy and an older man involved in […]

Sep, 21

L’ennemi naturel [The Natural Enemy] ***½ (2004, Jalil Lespert, Aurélien Recoing, Patrick Rocca) – Classic Movie Review 12,648

The 2004 French psychological crime thriller film L’ennemi naturel [The Natural Enemy] is bleak, dark and disturbing. Jalil Lespert stars as a young French police inspector sent to a seaside small town to investigate the […]

Sep, 20

The Perks of Being a Wallflower **** (2012, Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd) – Classic Movie Review 12,647

Logan Lerman stars in the poignant and appealing 2012 cult film The Perks of Being a Wallflower as troubled, introverted 16-year-old freshman Charlie, observing life from the sidelines, until he connects with two misfit seniors […]

Sep, 18

Cloak without Dagger [Operation Conspiracy] * (1956, Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie, Leslie Dwyer, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 12,646

The British 1956 noir espionage thriller film Cloak without Dagger [Operation Conspiracy] is a feeble, clichéd B-movie spy drama with romance and bantering in the concoction. Philip Friend and Mary Mackenzie star.  Director Joseph Sterling’s […]

Sep, 17

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