Derek Winnert

Can You Ever Forgive Me? **** (2018, Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone) – Movie Review

Melissa McCarthy is now officially forgiven for Tammy, Spy and The Heat. Her winning performance as complicated alcoholic lesbian forger Lee Israel in director Marielle Heller’s comedy drama biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me? is the cornerstone […]

Oct, 19 · in Reviews

Burning [Beoning] **** (2018, Ah-In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jeon) – Movie Review

Ah-In Yoo stars as Jong-su, a young South Korean graduate in creative writing, would-be novelist and part-time worker. One day, while out delivering, he meets and reconnects with Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jeon), who grew up in […]

Oct, 18 · in Reviews

The Favourite **** (2018, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss) – Movie Review 

The Favourite (2018) is a most elegant, sophisticated and hugely entertaining dark comedy drama from director Yorgos Lanthimos. I was going to say it is a true original, but then it is very much like a […]

Oct, 18

Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 [Dangerous Liaisons 1960] *** (1959, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Stroyberg) – Classic Movie Review 7674

Director Roger Vadim’s 1959 French movie Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 [Dangerous Liaisons 1960] is based on Choderlos de Laclos’s novel and remade as Dangerous Liaisons, Valmont and Cruel Intentions. Vadim’s version is a highly entertaining […]

Oct, 18

Levity ** (2003, Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst) – Classic Movie Review 7673

Director Ed Solomon’s intelligent, well-made 2003 crime drama Levity finds Billy Bob Thornton working hard and effectively as Manuel Jordan, an ex-con looking for redemption after killing a teen while carrying out a robbery 20 […]

Oct, 18

Lianna *** (1983, Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries) – Classic Movie Review 7672

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1983 drama Lianna looks at the life of troubled 30something woman Lianna (Linda Griffiths), unhappily married to arrogant Dick (JohnDeVries), and her growing sexual and loving attraction to a female teacher friend […]

Oct, 17

Birds of Passage [Pájaros de verano] **** (2018, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Carmiña Martínez) – Movie Review

José Acosta stars as marijuana trafficker Rapayet, who gives an enormous dowry to marry into an indigenous remote northern Colombian family, who then get deeper and deeper into an all-out war to control the drugs […]

Oct, 17

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