Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Fitzcarraldo ***** (1982, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy) – Classic Movie Review 4459

The great Klaus Kinski stars in the role he was born for – the real-life turn-of-the-last-century mad Irishman Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose plan was to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle […]

Oct, 05

A United Kingdom ***½ (2016, David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Tom Felton, Nicholas Lyndhurst ) – Movie Review

David Oyelowo stars as Prince Seretse Khama of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, (now Botswana) who causes a big political and personal rumpus when he meets, romances and then marries white London woman Ruth Williams in the […]

Oct, 05

Fists in the Pocket [I Pugni in Tasca] **** (1965, Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Liliana Gerace, Marino Masé) – Classic Movie Review 4457

In a small provincial Italian town, a blind widow (Liliana Gerace) lives with her four children, a sister and three brothers, three of whom are bound by their epilepsy, putting the family under constant tension […]

Oct, 05

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