Derek Winnert

The Army of Shadows [L’Armée des Ombres] ***** (1969, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 3799

Writer-producer-director Jean-Pierre Melville pays tribute to the French Resistance he worked for in World War Two with this extremely engrossing, powerful and challenging 1969 epic account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, set in 1942. Lino […]

Jun, 04 · in Uncategorized

Léon Morin, Priest [Léon Morin, prêtre] ****½ (1961, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc) – Classic Movie Review 3798

In the Occupied French provincial town of Saint Bernard during World War Two, a young woman, Barny Sangredin (Emmanuelle Riva), a communist-supporting widow with a little daughter Christine (Irène Tunc), falls in love with a priest, Léon […]

Jun, 04 · in Uncategorized

Getting It Right ***½ (1989, Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Horrocks, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 3797

‘Gavin is 31… and a virgin. One wild night and three women later, he’s finally… Getting It Right.’ Thanks to a sweet story and a sweet cast, this delightful 1988 British comedy about a late […]

Jun, 04

Other People **** (2016, Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford, Zach Woods ) – Movie Review

Jesse Plemons stars as 30-year-old American gay man David, a struggling comedy writer and indeed struggling person, fresh from breaking up with his five-year long-term boyfriend, who returns to his home town of Sacramento, California, to […]

Jun, 03

Goat **** (2016, Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, James Franco) – Movie Review

Ben Schnetzer stars as real-life 19 year-old Brad Land, who after suffering a terrifying assault by two sadistic young guys after a party, enrols into the college of his older brother Brett (Nick Jonas), who encourages him to […]

Jun, 03

Author: The JT LeRoy Story **** (2016, Laura Albert, Bruce Benderson, Dennis Cooper) – Movie Review

It is hard not to be really impressed by and engrossed in Jeff Feuerzeig’s meticulously researched and imaginatively presented documentary. The unbelievable Author: The JT LeRoy Story is riveting and fascinating – and raises so many […]

Jun, 03

The Greasy Strangler ** (2016, Michael St Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo) – Movie Review

Michael St Michaels stars as Big Ronnie, a total old slob who lives with his equally dysfunctional middle-aged son, Big Brayden (Sky Elobar). Their sad and pathetic existence is punctuated with Brayden cooking ever more greasy food […]

Jun, 03

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