Derek Winnert

The Breadwinner ***** (2017, voices of Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus) – Movie Review

The Breadwinner (2017) is a beautifully drawn, unusually involving, eye-opener animation from Nora Twomey, co-director of The Secret of Kells (2009) and head of story for Song of the Sea (2014). It is story based. It […]

May, 28 · in Reviews

The Book of Life ** (1998, Martin Donovan, P J Harvey, Dave Simonds, Thomas Jay Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 7104

Writer-director Hal Hartley’s weird, serious-minded 1998 fantasy comedy satire The Book of Life is a self-styled controversial retelling of the Apocalypse. Martin Donovan stars as Jesus Christ, who arrives in New York on millennium eve […]

May, 28 · in Reviews

Bon Voyage *** (1944, John Blythe, The Molière Players) – Classic Movie Review 7103

Bon Voyage (1944) is the first of two French language half-hour wartime propaganda films made during World War Two made by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. Hitchcock had been stung into coming back to […]

May, 27

Aventure Malgache *** (1944, Paul Bonifas, Paul Clarus, Jean Dattas) – Classic Movie Review 7102

Alfred Hitchcock’s second British wartime propaganda short film in French Aventure Malgache (1944) was made immediately after Bon Voyage and was again filmed by him for the British Ministry of Information. Hitchcock recalled ‘It was […]

May, 27

Simple Men **** (1992, Robert John Burke, William Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 7101

Writer-director Hal Hartley’s striking third feature Simple Men (1992) reaches the parts other movies do not, as a pair of brothers, Bill and Dennis McCabe (Robert John Burke, William Sage) – good boys with bad […]

May, 27

Quigley Down Under *** (1990, Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood) – Classic Movie Review 7100

Director Simon Wincer’s enjoyable 1990 middle-of-the-road Aussie Western stars Tom Selleck as high, wide and handsome American cowboy adventurer and sharpshooter Matt Quigley, who is hired from Wyoming by black-hearted, villainous Australian rancher Elliott Marston […]

May, 27

Close My Eyes *** (1991, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves, Alan Rickman) – Classic Movie Review 7099

Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff’s provocative, controversial 1991 British drama film Close My Eyes stars Clive Owen as Richard, an architect who is very close to his older sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves), who is married to a wealthy […]

May, 27

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