Derek Winnert

Casting *** (2017, Andreas Lust, Judith Engel, Tim Kalkhof) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Nicolas Wackerbarth’s German film has wicked fun at the expense of actors and creatives in this witty, funny and clever comedy drama about the casting sessions for a remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Seventies […]

Oct, 04 · in Uncategorized

Breathe ** (2017, Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers, Diana Rigg) – Movie Review

Actor Andy Serkis’s directorial debut is a surprisingly traditional and conventional biopic film. It is also straightforward, plain and sentimental, just when something rigorous and offbeat, even experimental, is required. It is very honorable, very English […]

Oct, 04 · in Uncategorized

A Good Woman *** (2004, Helen Hunt, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Scarlett Johansson) – Classic Movie Review 6058

Director Mike Barker’s fourth screen version of the 1892 classic play Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde is excellent and underrated, propelled by a superb performance by an ideally cast Helen Hunt as the infamous femme fatale Mrs Erlynne. Of the British team, Stephen […]

Oct, 04

Bright Young Things * (2003, Michael Sheen, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 6057

Writer-director Stephen Fry fumbles his 2003 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s superb satirical novel Vile Bodies in his directing debut, feebly sending up the British press and Thirties posh folk, the Bright Young Things of […]

Oct, 04

Blade Runner 2049 *** (2017, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto) – Movie Review

Director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is a great looking movie, with amazing visuals and effects. It is thoughtful and intelligent sci-fi action, in the great tradition of the original, though of course, not surprisingly, inferior to […]

Oct, 04

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant [Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant ] ***** (1975, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann) – Classic Movie Review 6056

Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s weird though utterly compelling 1972 German film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant about love, power and lesbian passions is one of his finest movies, now a much acclaimed classic. […]

Oct, 03

Police **** (1985, Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Pascale Rocard, Sandrine Bonnaire) – Classic Movie Review 6055

Co-writer/ director Maurice Pialat’s urgent and complicated 1985 French thriller stars Gérard Depardieu as Paris police inspector Louis Mangin, a jaded bent cop who cracks open a Tunisian drug operation, but finds himself helplessly infatuated with […]

Oct, 03

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