Derek Winnert

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ***** (2017, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage) – Movie Review 

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell give dazzlingly brilliant performances in writer-director Martin McDonagh’s supremely dark and dangerous black comedy crime drama. McDonagh sure does like living dangerously, as he previously showed in In Bruges (2008) and Seven […]

Oct, 15

Une Femme est une Femme [A Woman Is a Woman] **** (1961, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy) – Classic Movie Review 6066

Jean-Paul Belmondo was reunited with Jean-Luc Godard for Une Femme est une Femme [A Woman Is a Woman] (1961) after the lead role in Breathless [À bout de souffle] (1960) made him a major star of […]

Oct, 09

Vivre Sa Vie [My Life to Live] **** (1962, Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S Labarthe, Monique Messine, Henri Attal, Gérard Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 6065

In 1962 Jean-Luc Godard shot Vivre Sa Vie [My Life to Live] (1962) over four weeks in Paris for $40,000, and it became his first commercial success since À bout de souffle [Breathless] (1960), ending up […]

Oct, 09

Blade Runner 2049 *** (2017, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto) – Movie Review

Director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is a great looking movie, with amazing visuals and effects. It is thoughtful and intelligent sci-fi action, in the great tradition of the original, though of course, not surprisingly, inferior to […]

Oct, 04

The Glass Castle ** (2017, Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s serious-minded 2017 film is an interesting and conscientious but unconvincingly staged coming-of-age true-life memoir, with neither Brie Larson nor Naomi Watts seen at their best. Woody Harrelson (wearing a dodgy-looking wig) […]

Oct, 02

The Mad Room *** (1969, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Skip Ward, Carol Cole, Severn Darden, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 6032

Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters and Beverly Garland are a winning triple whammy in the 1969 horror movie The Mad Room. Co-writer/ director Bernard Girard’s 1969 horror movie The Mad Room is an atmospheric and suspenseful, […]

Sep, 17

Our Blushing Brides *** (1930, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian) – Classic Movie Review 5956

Joan Crawford and Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian return for producer-director Harry Beaumont’s 1930 all-talking follow-up to their silent film successes Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and Our Modern Maidens (1929). Crawford plays the role of Gerry March, a department store mannequin who falls in love […]

Aug, 22

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