Derek Winnert

A Paris Education [Mes provinciales] **** (2018, Andranic Manet, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam) – Movie Review

Andranic Manet plays Etienne, a sullen, only semi-appealing French provincial boy from Lyon, who selfishly leaves his nice girlfriend Lucie (Diane Rouxel) and loving parents behind to start a new exciting life in Paris to […]

Oct, 02 · in Reviews

Assassination Nation *** (2018, Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Writer-director Sam Levinson’s full-on, full-throttle Assassination Nation (2018) is hard to like and hard to sit through, but it is done with great enthusiasm and skill, and huge self-belief – and very considerable show-off style. It […]

Oct, 02 · in Reviews

Lizzie *** (2018, Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jamey Sheridan, Fiona Shaw, Denis O’Hare, Kim Dickens ) – Movie Review

The tragic tale of Lizzie Borden offers a grand role for Chloë Sevigny, which she takes on eagerly in director Craig William Macneill’s psychological thriller Lizzie, based on the shocking, infamous 1892 murders. It is […]

Oct, 02

The Sheepman *** (1958, Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 7630

Director George Marshall’s 1958 Western The Sheepman, based on a story by James Edward Grant, William Roberts, is well done all round. Glenn Ford stars as Jason Sweet, a stranger who comes to town to […]

Oct, 01

The Sheep Has Five Legs [Le mouton à cinq pattes] **** (1954, Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul, Andrex) – Classic Movie Review 7629

Director Henri Verneuil’s 1954 French charmer The Sheep Has Five Legs [Le Mouton a Cinq Pattes] boasts an Oscar-nominated story and a brio multi-performance in six roles by the great Fernandel. In the story, a […]

Oct, 01

Sheena * (1984, Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7628

Director John Guillermin’s 1984 lady in a loincloth comic book adventure Sheena suffers from an achingly poor screenplay by David Newman and Lorenzo Semple Jr, and it is deadly dull because no one seems to […]

Oct, 01

The Rounders *** (1965, Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 7627

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1965 The Rounders is an appealingly relaxed, humorous-toned Western with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda both on excellent form as Ben and Howdy, a fairly dim-seeming pair of aging present-day bronco busters who […]

Oct, 01

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