Derek Winnert

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Enfant Terrible *** (2020, Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann) – Classic Movie Review 11,054

Simply put, director Oskar Roehler’s 2020’s biographical drama Enfant Terrible is a good film of a bad man and a good director. It is a provocative, challenging, depressing film. Oliver Masucci is strikingly excellent as […]

Mar, 29

Sublet **** (2020, John Benjamin Hickey, Niv Nissim, Lihi Kornowski, Miki Kam, Peter Spears)

Director Eytan Fox’s 2020 emotionally powerful, thoroughly likeable and appealing romantic comedy drama Sublet stars John Benjamin Hickey as a gay middle-aged New York Times travel writer, Michael, who comes to Tel Aviv for research […]

Mar, 23

Firebird **** (2021, Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, Nicholas Woodeson, Diana Pozharskaya) – Movie Review

Director Peeter Rebane’s ambitious 2021 romantic drama Firebird is an intelligent, thoughtful, moving and involving true gay love story set against the repressive background of a Soviet Air Force Base in the era of the […]

Mar, 20

Jump, Darling **** (2020, Thomas Duplessie, Cloris Leachman, Linda Kash) – Movie Review

Writer-director Phil Connell’s appealing, amusing and moving 2020 Canadian drama Jump, Darling stars Thomas Duplessie as Russell, aka rookie drag queen Fishy Falters, who escapes from a break-up with his boyfriend to his grandmother (Cloris […]

Mar, 19

Boy Meets Boy **** (2021, Matthew James Morrison, Alexis Koutsoulis) – Movie Review

Ah yes, When Harry Met Johannes. Co-writer/ director Daniel Sanchez Lopez’s German gay romantic drama Boy Meets Boy (2021) stars Matthew James Morrison as young English intern junior doctor Harry, Alexis Koutsoulis as the beautiful […]

Mar, 19

The Wedding Banquet [Xi yan] *** (1993, Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung) – Classic Movie Review 10,761

Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy drama The Wedding Banquet [Xi yan] is a funny, touching, carefully observed little film with strong performances. Ang based the first half of his movie on the true story […]

Jan, 06

The Lost Language of Cranes ***½ (1991, Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, Angus Macfadyen, Corey Parker) – Classic Movie Review 10,725

Nigel Finch’s 1991 British drama film The Lost Language of Cranes is a revealing, frank and moving version of David Leavitt’s novel, meticulously played, especially by the remarkable Brian Cox. In the US, it was […]

Dec, 30

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