Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

Outlaw/ King ** (2018, Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh) – Movie Review

Chris Pine of Los Angeles, California, USA, channels his inner Scot as the 14th Century Scottish Outlaw/ King Robert the Bruce, who makes a reasonable claim to the Scottish throne and then desperately tries to […]

Oct, 17 · in Reviews

Beyond Therapy * (1987, Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti) -Classic Movie Review 7671

Director Robert Altman assembles a lovely cast for the 1987 comedy Beyond Therapy, an incurable misfire film version of a stage play by Christopher Durang, who collaborates with Altman on the screenplay. The scant story […]

Oct, 16

Kansas City *** (1996, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 7670

Producer-director Robert Altman’s tense, involving, tough-toned 1996 crime film Kansas City stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney and Steve Buscemi. In the screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, a pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics […]

Oct, 16

Sunset [Napszállta] **** (2018, Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Tom Pilath, Susanne Wuest, Evelin Dobos) – Movie Review

Writer-director László Nemes’s Sunset [Napszállta] is the most challenging film of the 2018 London Film Festival – challenging to understand, challenging to stay awake, challenging to stay the course, oh and did I say challenging to understand? Juli […]

Oct, 16

In Fabric **** (2018, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Fatma Mohamed, Jaygann Ayeh, Leo Bill, Hayley Squires) – Movie Review

Writer-director Peter Strickland’s In Fabric is an often hilarious black comedy ghost story about a cursed red dress that comes from an English department store winter sales and passes from person to person, with the […]

Oct, 16

HealtH ** (1980, Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Dick Cavett, Paul Dooley) – Classic Movie Review 7669

Director Robert Altman’s 1989 comedy HealtH tries but fails to repeat the success of his 1978 triumph A Wedding in another starry satire, this time about a health food convention at a luxury hotel in Florida’s […]

Oct, 16

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