Derek Winnert

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The Unsaid ***½ (2001, Andy Garcia, Vincent Kartheiser, Trevor Blumas) – Classic Movie Review 2280

Director Tom McLoughlin’s 2001 Canadian thriller stars Andy Garcia as Michael Hunter, a grief-stricken psychiatrist who is battling the memory of his son’s suicide and living with the departure of his wife Penny (Chelsea Field) […]

Mar, 18

Storytelling *** (2001, Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom) – Classic Movie Review 1775

Writer-director Todd Solondz’s fourth film is this weird 2001 black comedy chronicling the experiences of two teenagers trying to make sense of their lives through creative projects. The director of Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) […]

Oct, 24

Sylvia ** (2003, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 1711

Director Christine Jeffs’s 2003 film examines the painful, depressingly sad true story of married poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, with all the little and large events of their troubled lives unfortunately underlined with horribly […]

Sep, 27

The Wind Rises **** (2013, dir Hayao Miyazaki) – Movie Review

Japan’s greatest animation director Hayao Miyazaki, the 2003 Oscar winner for Spirited Away, combines his own entertaining plot and screenplay, compelling characters and quite stunningly breath-taking animation for his fictionalised and fanciful biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, the wiz who designed […]

May, 07

Tom at the Farm [Tom à la ferme] **½ (2013, Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy) – Movie Review

In this French-Canadian gay film, made in Quebec, director Xavier Dolan stars as Tom, who is in a torment of grief and depression just after the death of his male lover. He hoves up uninvited at the […]

Apr, 06

Repulsion **** (1965, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark) – Classic Movie Review 66

‘I must get this crack mended.’ How can this ever have sounded more sinister? Making his first film in English in 1965, Polish director Roman Polanski comes up with a uniquely chilling, dark and disturbing […]

Jul, 19

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