Derek Winnert

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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

Boy Erased **** (2018,Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe) – Movie Review

Writer-director Joel Edgerton’s biographical drama Boy Erased is based on a memoir by Garrard Conley about the conversion therapy of an American  gay teenager. It is a very good, very compelling film, all too real film, […]

Dec, 10

Regeneration [Behind the Lines] **** (1997, Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, David Hayman, Dougray Scott, John Neville) Classic Movie Review 7883

Jonathan Pryce gives a career-best performance as the psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate shell-shocked World War One veterans, including war poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1997 British-Canadian co-production Regeneration [Behind the Lines] […]

Dec, 05

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1985, Lindsay Kemp, Manuela Vargas, Jack Birkett, François Testory, David Meyer, Neil Caplan, Michael Matou, David Haughton) – Classic Movie Review 7838

Lindsay Kemp’s Company brings its London stage production of the William Shakespeare play to the screen with colourful success in director Celestino Coronada’s 1985 Spanish-UK TV movie A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As Puck (Lindsay Kemp) […]

Nov, 27

The Long Memory *** (1953, John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh) – Classic Movie Review 7751

Director Robert Hamer’s 1953 British black-and-white film noir thriller The Long Memory is a rather tame and routine crime drama that, as a story, is not always too convincing and probably will not live too […]

Nov, 04

The Virgin Soldiers *** (1969, Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Patrick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 7707

Hywel Bennett stars in The Virgin Soldiers (1969) as Private Brigg sent to Singapore where he falls for army daughter Phillipa Raskin (Lynn Redgrave). Leslie Thomas’s 1966 comic novel, based on his British Army experiences as […]

Oct, 27

Bohemian Rhapsody ** (2018, Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Aiden Gillen, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy) – Movie Review

Bohemian Rhapsody is an interesting music biopic but it is troubled with hesitancies and uncertainties. Rami Malek proves a most interesting choice for the star part. He looks good and is ingratiating in the flamboyant […]

Oct, 26

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