Derek Winnert

Not as a Stranger ** (1955, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame,Charles Bickford, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7898

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s strongly cast but little known 1955 film noir-style romantic drama Not as a Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as ego-driven aspiring physician Lucas Marsh, who marries Swedish nurse Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland) […]

Dec, 11 · in Reviews

Green Book **** (2018, Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini) – Movie Review

Director Peter Farrelly’s 2018 biographical comedy drama Green Book is a whole load of fun, hugely entertaining and enjoyable, with lots of laughs, some broad, some more subtle and some wicked, though it occasionally seems […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

Roma ***** (2018, Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey) – Movie Review

Writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s Mexican masterpiece Roma (2018) is a magnificent movie, brilliantly staged, and gloriously realised in gorgeous black and white scope images, with a warm and winning saga, highlighted by a couple of heart-stopping […]

Dec, 10

Cold War [Zimna wojna] **** (2018, Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn) – Movie Review

Writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski’s beautiful, passionate 2018 romantic drama Cold War [Zimna wojna] is a doomed love story about two mismatched people, set in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris against the background of the Fifties Cold War. It is a […]

Dec, 10

Dogman **** (2018, Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Matteo Garrone’s 2018 Italian neo-realist relationships drama, crime movie and revenge thriller Dogman has a simmering and then scalding impact. It comes from the director of the 2008 Gomorrah. Dogman is one heck of a strong, hard and […]

Dec, 10

Faces Places [Visages villages] **** (2017, Agnès Varda, JR) – Movie Review

French New Wave film director Agnes Varda and young idealist photographer/ mural artist JR journey in a van through rural France, taking pictures and creating art, while forming a devoted unlikely if friendship. The van […]

Dec, 10

Apostasy **** (2017, Sacha Parkinson, Siobhan Finneran, Molly Wright, Robert Emms) – Movie Review

Writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo’s 2017 British drama Apostasy looks at the Jehovah’s Witnesses through a sharply clear, critical eye in his Oldham-set story of a working class family of three Jehovah’s Witness, a mother and her […]

Dec, 10

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