Derek Winnert

Foxtrot **** (2017, Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray) – Movie Review 

Writer-director Samuel Maoz’s masterful family war drama is imaginatively, often brilliantly staged. Even though the film does not finally quite bowl you over, it has some knockout sequences that can certainly bowl you over. Despite its polished visuals, […]

Sep, 30 · in Uncategorized

The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] **** (1974, Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 6052

Director Maurice Pialat’s 1974 French drama film The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] is a realist depiction of a woman undergoing the late stages of a terminal illness, going through several deeply emotional moments. Monique Mélinand plays […]

Sep, 30 · in Reviews

The Guardians [Les gardiennes] **** (2017, Nathalie Baye, Iris Bry, Laura Smet, Cyril Descours) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Xavier Beauvois’s World War One French countryside epic offers Nathalie Baye a great role as the matriarch of a family farm, where the young menfolk are sent to fight the Germans and the women take […]

Sep, 30

Racer and the Jailbird [Le Fidèle] ** (2017, Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Kerem Can, Sam Louwyck, Stefaan Degand) – Movie Review 

Matthias Schoenaerts stars as high-flying low-life Brussels gangster Gigi, who is introduced to young upper-class racing driver Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos) by her brother at a party. Gigi hits on Bibi at once. Bibi is charmed. They agree to meet again in a […]

Sep, 29

The Cakemaker **** (2017, Tim Kalkhof, Sarah Adler, Roy Miller, Zohar Shtrauss) – Movie Review 

Tim Kalkhof gives the warmest and most appealing of performances as Tomas, a gay German pastry maker working in a tasty cake shop and cafe in Berlin, where a married man Oren (Roy Miller) arrives and asks […]

Sep, 29

The Alf Garnett Saga * (1972, Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Adrienne Posta, Mike Angelis) – Classic Movie Review 6051

Director Bob Kellett’s 1972 sequel to 1968’s Till Death Us Do Part is a shaky and disappointing comedy feature. It is the second film spinoff from the classic Sixties TV show Till Death Us Do […]

Sep, 29

Lean on Pete **** (2017, Charlie Plummer, Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn, Thomas Mann) – Movie Review 

OK give Charlie Plummer the whatever award for Most Promising Newcomer as 15-year-old Charley Thompson who takes a summer job with washed-up horse trainer Del (Steve Buscemi) and befriends his struggling racehorse named Lean on Pete. Well, actually, Charlie […]

Sep, 29

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