Derek Winnert

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Girl **** (2018, Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart) – Movie Review

Victor Polster is sensational as the 15-year-old Lara, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina, in co-writer/ director Lukas Dhont’s Girl (2018). You could put this another way, Victor Polster is sensational as […]

Oct, 14

Normal **½ (2003, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Lange, Hayden Panettiere, Clancy Brown) – Classic Movie Review 5130

Writer-director Jane Anderson’s nice spirited, if uncomfortable and not entirely successful 2003 drama is set around the lives of a married couple, Roy and Irma (Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Lange), in a church-going, Middle America community. […]

Mar, 10

Shortbus ***½ (2006, Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, Jay Brannan, Raphael Barker, Alan Mandell, Adam Hardman, Ray Rivas, Justin Hagan) – Classic Movie Review 4604

Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s highly provocative, extremely controversial 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film teaches a lesson of acceptance as it centres on a sexually diverse group of colorful characters trying to connect in New York City. The […]

Nov, 07

Hedwig and the Angry Inch **** (2001, John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Andrea Martin, Karen Hines, Alberta Watson) – Classic Movie Review 4603

Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s 2001 cult American musical comedy drama is a tour de force for him, giving a sensational performance in the title role of Hedwig based on his original in his source stage show, written […]

Nov, 07

The Skin I Live In [La piel que habito] *** (2011, Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet) – Classic Movie Review 3575

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s intriguing but odd and alienating 2011 thriller is his 18th film, in a brilliant career that runs all the way back to Pepi, Luci, Bom in 1980. In his first collaboration with Almodóvar in […]

Apr, 16

The Danish Girl **** (2015, Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw) – Movie Review

Director Tom Hooper’s 2015 drama is an excellent, beautifully crafted movie with two brilliant, award-worthy performances by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and something important to say.  It has four Oscar nominations. It’s based on a true […]

Dec, 18

Ma Vie en Rose **** (1997, Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent) – Classic Movie Review 2557

Co-writer/director Alain Berliner’s brave and extraordinary 1997 Belgian-French-UK movie centres on its heart-warming story about a little seven-year-old boy called Ludovic Fabre (Georges Du Fresne, aged 12) who dreams about being a little girl, troubles […]

Jun, 05

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