Derek Winnert

Eye in the Sky **** (2015, Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Iain Glen, Phoebe Fox) – Movie Review

Director Gavin Hood’s engrossing 2015 movie Eye in the Sky is a nerve-janglingly tense, thought-provoking thriller, with an ideal tough role for Helen Mirren as British Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a […]

Apr, 11 · in Uncategorized

Dheepan **** (2015, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers) – Movie Review

The startling 2015 feature film Dheepan from Jacques Audiard, the maker of A Prophet and Rust and Bone, is quite an eye-opener and an emotional ride, as well as a real impressive piece of film-making, winning the […]

Apr, 11 · in Reviews

Hardcore Henry **** (2015, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Tim Roth) – Movie Review

Breathtaking, breathless, bizarre guilty pleasure Hardcore Henry will gross out many people and needs to come with a health warning. And here it is. It is an extremely violent movie with non-stop bloody brutal violence and […]

Apr, 10

Les Cousins **** (1959, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel) – Classic Movie Review 3554

Director Claude Chabrol re-unites with Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, his stars from the previous year’s Le Beau Serge, for this outstanding 1959 French New Wave drama that won him the Golden Bear award at […]

Apr, 10

Le Beau Serge [Bitter Reunion] **** (1958, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Michèle Méritz) – Classic Movie Review 3553

The 28-year-old film critic Claude Chabrol made his leap onto the screen as writer-director of this influential 1958 first film which had the distinction of being the very movie that set off the French Nouvelle […]

Apr, 10

Inspecteur Lavardin **** (1986, Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont) – Classic Movie Review 3552

This polished 1986 thriller is a successful second trip by director Claude Chabrol into territory that he carved out as his own – the French provincial thriller. Jean Poiret easily sustains a smooth and seemingly effortless reprise […]

Apr, 10

Poulet au vinaigre [Cop au Vin] **** (1985, Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 3551

Mystery genre master Claude Chabrol’s highly popular 1985 French cop thriller, wittily and punningly called Cop au Vin for its English-language release, is directed in style by the esteemed French director, expert concoctor of French provincial […]

Apr, 10

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