Derek Winnert

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Fracture **** (2007, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Bob Gunton) – Classic Movie Review 6360

Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling crackle in the 2007 legal thriller Fracture as rich aeronautics engineer Ted Crawford, who has devised the perfect murder of his cheating wife, and Willy Beachum, the cocky young public […]

Dec, 06

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court *** (1949, Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Wilcoxon, Murvyn Vye, Virginia Field) – Classic Movie Review 5941

Bing Crosby is quite the homespun charmer and certainly a wizard with the catchy songs, particularly the classic ‘Busy Doing Nothing’, in the 1949 American Technicolor comedy musical film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. […]

Aug, 20

Loving **** (2016, Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jeff Nichols tells the compelling and moving true story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving, and their ground-breaking legal challenge of their arrest for their marriage in Virginia. The movie is really well handled and, […]

Jan, 31

Tous les Matins du Monde [All the Mornings of the World] ***** (1991, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Guillaume Dépardieu, Anne Brochet, Carole Richert, Michel Bouquet, Caroline Sihol, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Claude Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 4157

Co-writer/ director Alain Corneau’s magical, gorgeous-looking, and utterly haunting 1991 French film is the tale of 17th-century love, betrayal and music (superbly arranged and played by Jordi Savall), with Depardieu père et fils – Gérard […]

Aug, 11

A Passage to India **** (1984, Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3178

After a 14-year gap, writer-director David Lean made a spectacular comeback in 1984 with his accomplished and satisfying adaptation of the E M Forster classic novel about the eye-opening first visit to India of a […]

Dec, 21

True Story ***½ (2015, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones) – Movie Review

There’s lots of fascinating interest in this creepy and provocative True Story about New York Times reporter Michael Finkel, who gets out of the frying pan and into the fire after he is disgraced and […]

Jul, 15

Housebound ***½ (2014, Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru) – Movie Review

Morgana O’Reilly stars as the dysfunctional young New Zealand woman Kylie Bucknell, who is ordered by a judge to return to her mother’s house on home detention, in writer-director Gerard Johnstone‘s black comedy horror thriller. Her punishment […]

Jul, 01

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