Derek Winnert

The Gospel According to Matthew [Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo] **** (1964, Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate) – Classic Movie Review 4135

Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s challenging and outstanding 1964 film is a beautiful, moving, masterly version of the life of Jesus Christ from an unexpected film-maker, who provocatively sees the story from a Marxist viewpoint and […]

Aug, 07 · in Uncategorized

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters **** (1985, Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto, Naoko Otani, Go Riju) – Classic Movie Review 4134

Co-writer/ director Paul Schrader’s 1985 movie about the prolific and controversial Japanese novelist, writer and militarist Yukio Mishima is a startling and accomplished American art film. Japan’s greatest author Mishima turned his art into action […]

Aug, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Twelve Chairs ***½ (1970, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Diana Coupland, David Lander, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 4133

Writer-director Mel Brooks’s engaging 1970 movie version of the much filmed 1920s classic Soviet satirical novel The Twelve Chairs by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov is sleek, witty and amusing. Ron Moody stars as […]

Aug, 06

Sugar and Spice *** (2001, Marley Shelton, James Marsden, Marla Sokoloff, Mena Suvari, Melissa George) – Classic Movie Review 4132

Marley Shelton stars as a pregnant cheerleader who recruits her fellow team dancing girls to rob a bank so she can support her burgeoning family. Director Francine McDougall’s funny 2001 teen comedy has an amusing […]

Aug, 06

The Carer ***½ (2016, Brian Cox, Coco König, Anna Chancellor, Emilia Fox, Karl Johnson, Roger Moore) – Movie Review

The 2016 film The Carer is all about a legendary old thespian, played with the utmost skill and relish by a perfectly cast Brian Cox as the increasingly ill Sir Michael Gifford, suffering from an […]

Aug, 06

Suicide Squad **½ (2016, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez) – Movie Review

Aha, Suicide Squad begins, Suicide Squad assembles. Channelling Joan Allen’s Pam Landy in the Bourne films, Viola Davis stars as Amanda Waller, the bad-ass boss of a secret government agency, who recruits an anti-hero strike team of incarcerated, Death Row super-villains to execute […]

Aug, 06

The Producers *** (2005, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Michael McKean, David Huddleston) – Classic Movie Review 4131

Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick re-create their Broadway stage roles in director Susan Stroman’s entertaining 2005 movie of the hit Broadway and London stage show of the old Mel Brooks film classic, The Producers (1968). Ideally […]

Aug, 05

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