Derek Winnert

The Match Factory Girl [Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö] **** (1989, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko) – Classic Movie Review 3565

Finnish cult writer-director Aki Kaurismäki’s dark 1989 comedy drama stars Kati Outinen as Iiris, the poor Match Factory Girl of the title, wearily looking after her grumpy mother and stepfather. Love and joy come into […]

Apr, 13 · in Reviews

The Match ** (1999, Max Beesley, Isla Blair, Laura Fraser, James Cosmo, Ian Holm, Richard E Grant, Neil Morrissey, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 3564

Writer-director Mick Davis’s pleasant but extremely mild 1999 contemporary British sports romantic comedy is set in Inverdoune, an idyllic village nestling in the pretty Scots Highlands. Max Beesley plays Wullie Smith, the local milkman besotted […]

Apr, 13 · in Reviews

The Divide *** (2015) – Movie Review

Director Katharine Round’s extremely big-hearted and well-meaning planet-saving documentary about global inequality is thoroughly engrossing, intelligent and provocative. Her film is inspired by the book The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Through their […]

Apr, 13

Matador *** (1986, Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Carmen Maura) – Classic Movie Review 3563

A retired male bullfighter and a smart female lawyer share a fatal fascination with death, in Pedro Almodóvar’s stylish, provocative, acclaimed 1986 black comedy film Matador. A retired male bullfighter and a smart female lawyer […]

Apr, 13

Mata Hari, Agent H21 *** (1964, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Rich, Frank Villard, Albert Rémy, Georges Riquier, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 3562

Co-writer/director Jean-Louis Richard’s 1964 French New Wave romantic thriller Mata Hari, Agent H21 stars his ex-wife Jeanne Moreau, who was born to play doomed lovers and tragic spies. So, although admittedly not Dutch or a […]

Apr, 13

Mata Hari ** (1985, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 3561

A beautiful, often-naked Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle) stars as the real-life Dutch-born dancer and German spy Mata Hari, in director Curtis Harrington’s interesting sex-obsessed soft-porn 1985 film version of the World War One spy story, with […]

Apr, 13

Three Men and a Little Lady ** (1990, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 3560

Emile Ardolino directs a feeble 1990 sequel to the 1987 baby blockbuster comedy Three Men and a Baby, happily with all the appealing four stars returning. But, alas, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson and Nancy Travis […]

Apr, 12

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