Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Toni Erdmann **** (2016, Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn) – Movie Review

Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller are brilliantly funny in writer-director Maren Ade’s endlessly hilarious epic comedy about an embarrassing dad trying to reconnect with his workaholic businesswoman daughter. The retired German dad, Winfried Conradi, is a constant […]

Oct, 07 · in Reviews

The Big Blue [Le Grand Bleu] ***½ (1988, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 4462

Jean-Marc Barr and Jean Reno star as two divers, rivals since childhood, who battle for supremacy of the deep. Director Luc Besson’s fascinating but under-written and overblown 1988 movie was a huge hit with the […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Broken Lullaby **** (1932, Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Tom Douglas, ZaSu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4463

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s unique 1932 serious drama is based on Maurice Rostand’s play L’Homme Que J’ai Tué (The Man I Killed) about a French youth called Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) who sets out to try to find […]

Oct, 06

Frantz **** (2016, Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Anton von Lucke, Cyrielle Clair, Alice de Lencquesaing) – Movie Review

Writer-director François Ozon’s incredibly romantic, gorgeously bitter-sweet drama stars Paula Beer as young German woman Anna who is grieving the death of her fiancé Frantz in the fighting in World War One France. She lives in a German small town […]

Oct, 06

The Big Bounce ** (1969, Ryan O’Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, James Daly, Robert Webber, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 4461

Director Alex March’s 1969 caper thriller stars Ryan O’Neal as Jack Ryan, a young ex-GI, drifter and criminal who gets into big trouble in his job at a Californian hotel. Leigh Taylor-Young plays a shady, greedy […]

Oct, 06

The Big Bounce * (2004, Owen Wilson, Sara Foster, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, Vinnie Jones, Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson, Bebe Neuwirth, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 4460

Director George Armitage’s 2004 remake of the Ryan O’Neal-Leigh Taylor-Young 1969 caper thriller The Big Bounce is a total non-event and no better – actually worse – than the vapid, long forgotten original. With an […]

Oct, 06

A Monster Calls **** (2016, Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell) – Movie Review

Lewis MacDougall stars as 12-year-old Conor O’Malley, who is greatly troubled by the heavy weight of his burden of impossible problems. He’s being bullied at school, his grandma (Sigourney Weaver) is chilly and controlly, his dad […]

Oct, 06

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