Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gay interest"

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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

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

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

Papi Chulo ***½ (2018, Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patiño, Elena Campbell-Martinez) – Movie Review

Matt Bomer stars in Papi Chulo (2018) as a popular and successful but lonely gay Los Angeles TV weatherman called Sean, who has a tearful breakdown on live TV and is given gardening leave to […]

Oct, 02

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 Leather Boys **** (1964, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7,580

A South London mechanic (Colin Campbell) marries a teenager (Rita Tushingham), but they drift apart, so he takes to going biking with his leather-jacketed gay biker chum (Dudley Sutton), in the trail-blazing 1964 British film […]

Sep, 16

Anchor and Hope [Ancora si speranta] **** (2017, Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin, David Verdaguer, Geraldine Chaplin, Charlotte Atkinson, Trevor White) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s quirky comedy of personal relationships Anchor and Hope (2017) is really quite special. It is richly enjoyable, very funny, touching and thoughtful, with four lovely performances in memorable characters, as well as […]

Sep, 11

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