Derek Winnert

Vox Lux *** (2018, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Stacy Martin, Raffey Cassidy, Jennifer Ehle) – Movie Review

The 30-year-old writer-director Brady Corbet’s second film Vox Lux (2018) is his edgy, ambitious, confident and stylish follow-up to his The Childhood of a Leader (2015). It is equally provocative and dynamic, as well as […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Woman at War [Kona fer í stríð] **** (2018, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War, Iceland’s submission to the 91st Academy Awards (2018), cheered me up enormously. It is an expertly aimed feel-good movie, delightfully quirky and funny, definitely about something, many things […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Gold ** (1974, Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, John Gielgud, Bradford Dillman, Tony Beckley) – Classic Movie Review 8445

Long-time Clapham South resident Susannah York plays the forlorn love interest Terry Steyner, who ends up two-in-a-bath with her co-star Roger Moore, in director Peter R Hunt’s 1974 South African-filmed adventure thriller hokum Gold. Wilbur […]

May, 07

Shout at the Devil *** (1976, Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 8444

Director Peter R Hunt’s 1976 British war adventure film Shout at the Devil is a robust and welcome if undistinguished old-style action adventure thriller, with Lee Marvin as boozy American entrepreneur Colonel Flynn O’Flynn and […]

May, 07

A Short Film About Killing [Krótki film o zabijaniu] **** (1988, Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) – Classic Movie Review 8443

Filmed in autumnal hues, with unsettling camera shots and jump cuts to disturbing images, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s thought-provoking 1988 crime drama A Short Film About Killing [Krótki film o zabijaniu] is the deeply troubling […]

May, 07

A Short Film About Love [Krótki film o milosci] **** (1988, Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska) – Classic Movie Review 8442

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941–1996) expanded the 61-minute sixth part of his Ten Commandments TV series into an 87-minute cinema feature as A Short Film About Love [Krótki film o milosci]. It is the most romantic […]

May, 07

Lenny **** (1974, Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner) – Classic Movie Review 8,441

Dustin Hoffman sizzles as controversial, self-destructive Jewish club stand up comedian Lenny Bruce, in the 1974 biopic Lenny, brilliantly directed by Bob Fosse. It is Valerie Perrine’s finest hour as Bruce’s stripper wife Honey. Dustin […]

May, 07

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