Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "death penalty"

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Just Mercy **** (2019, Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson) – Movie Review

Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx, form a strong partnership as Harvard-educated pro bono civil rights defence attorney Bryan Stevenson and Walter McMillian, a wrongly condemned Alabama death row prisoner he works tirelessly for years […]

Feb, 20

A Hidden Life *** (2019, August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon) – Movie Review

‘Better to suffer injustice than to do it.’ Writer-director Terrence Malick’s challenging A Hidden Life (2019) is a noble enterprise, an incredibly sincere spiritual film, told with austerity worthy of Robert Bresson or Maurice Pialat, […]

Jan, 26

I Vinti [The Vanquished] **** (1953, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Etchika Choureau, Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Patrick Barr, Fay Compton, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 8742

Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s thematically linked 1953 anthology drama I Vinti [The Vanquished] stars Jean-Pierre Mocky, Etchika Choureau, Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Patrick Barr, Fay Compton and Eduardo Ciannelli. It tells three stories about well-off […]

Jul, 21

Too Young to Die? *** (1989, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michael Tucker, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7512

Young Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt show a lot of class and charisma in director Robert Markowitz’s shocking 1989 true-story drama. It is written by David Hill and George Rubino, based on a fact-based story by David […]

Aug, 29

La Machine **** (1977, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Monique Mélinand) – Classic Movie Review 3633

French film-maker and author Paul Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, aged 92. He notably directed La Machine (1977), a passionate attack on capital punishment, starring Jean-Christophe Bouvet. Jean-Christophe Bouvet has his first […]

Apr, 30

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