Derek Winnert

The Motorcycle Diaries [Diarios de motocicleta] **** (2004, Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro) – Classic Movie Review 852

Director Walter Salles’s 2004 eye-catching and thought-provoking film unites him with Gael García Bernal, who had already played Che Guevara in Fidel, the 2002 TV movie about Castro. As the young Che Guevara, an ideally […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

Rabbit-Proof Fence **** (2002, Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, David Gulphilil, Ningali Lawford) – Classic Movie Review 855

Australia, 1931. Three part-Aboriginal girls, Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi) and her younger sister and cousin, escape their internment at the hands of the British, under the wickedly misguided ‘chief protector of Aborigines’ A O Neville […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

That Touch of Mink **** (1962, Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, John Astin, Dick Sargent, John Fielder, Richard Deacon) – Classic Movie Review 851

Director Delbert Mann’s pleasing 1962 romantic comedy That Touch of Mink teams Cary Grant with Doris Day, who recalled: ‘Cary was maybe the most professional, exacting actor I ever worked with and even got involved […]

Mar, 01

That Thing You Do! *** (Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron) – Classic Film Review 850

In every life there comes a time when that dream you dream becomes that thing you do, it says on the publicity here. That thing Tom Hanks used to do was to be a truly […]

Mar, 01

The Italian Job ***** (1969, Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill) – Classic Movie Review 849

Michael Caine stars in one of his most beloved roles as small-time criminal Charlie Croker in the 1969 classic Sixties crime caper film The Italian Job. Noël Coward steals his scenes as crook mastermind Mr […]

Feb, 27

We Are What We Are – Film Review

Bill Sage gives a chilling, menacing performance as crazy, intimidating patriarch Frank Parker, whose daughters Iris and Rose (Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner) are forced to assume family responsibilities after a torrential rainstorm hits the area and tragedy strikes […]

Feb, 26

The Book Thief *** (2013, Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Nico Liersch) – Movie Review

Ontario-born Sophie Nélisse stars as the spirited and courageous young German girl Liesel, who is subjected to the horrors of World War Two Germany and is sent to live with a foster family. She finds comfort in this […]

Feb, 26

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