Derek Winnert

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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon **** (1970, Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Kay Thompson, Leonard Frey, James Coco, Wayne Tippit, Guy Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 9473

Director Otto Preminger tugs determinedly at the heartstrings, and, despite the odd slip into sentimentality and plot contrivance, gets through to the target in his beguilingly sweet and sensitive 1970 drama Tell Me That You […]

Mar, 07

Matthias et Maxime [Matthias & Maxime] **** (2019, Xavier Dolan, Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Harris Dickinson, Anne Dorval) – Movie Review

Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas and Xavier Dolan star as Matthias & Maxime, which finds writer-director Xavier Dolan in romantic mode, edgy, unconventional romantic mode perhaps, but definitely romantic mode. The French-Canadian film, mostly in French focuses […]

Oct, 02

A Month in the Country *** (1987, Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide, Tony Haygarth, Richard Vernon, Jim Carter) – Classic Movie Review 8702

Director Pat O’Connor’s 1987 British drama A Month in the Country is a subtle film version of J L Carr’s novel, made with TV in mind but promoted to a cinema release. The tale is […]

Jul, 13

London Suite [Neil Simon’s London Suite] * (1996, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 8021

A very good cast is dreadfully wasted in director Jay Sandrich’s naff, turgid and woeful 1996 comedy London Suite, an adaptation of Neil Simon’s follow-up to his hilarious plays and films California Suite and Plaza […]

Jan, 16

Mary Queen of Scots ** (2018, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Adrian Lester, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, James McArdle, David Tennant) – Movie Review

Director Josie Rourke’s modern re-interpretation of the tragic historical story of Mary Queen of Scots is vivid and ambitious. Unfortunately, it is not a happy, feel-good story, and the film is more on the interesting […]

Dec, 13

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

Reflections in a Golden Eye *** (1967, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 7185

Director John Huston’s salacious and compulsive but awkward 1967 high heat Deep South melodrama Reflections in a Golden Eye is based on the Carson McCullers novel and boasts the right cast on compelling form, particularly […]

Jun, 17

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