Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gay interest"

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A Delicate Balance **** (1973, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Joseph Cotten, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Betsy Blair) – Classic Movie Review 4374

Director Tony Richardson encourages superb acting from Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield as Agnes and Tobias, an ageing, well-to-do Connecticut couple quarrelling with their family members and best friends. They are their daughter Julia (Lee Remick), ready […]

Sep, 17

Making Love *** (1982, Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin, Kate Jackson, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill, Nancy Olson) – Classic Movie Review 4,368

Harry Hamlin plays LA novelist Bart, who meets married young LA doctor Zach (Michael Ontkean), who falls for him, in Making Love (1982), the first American major studio movie focusing on a romantic gay relationship. […]

Sep, 15

Madagascar Skin ***½ (1995, Bernard Hill, John Hannah, Mark Anthony, Mark Pettitt, Danny Earl) – Classic Movie Review 4367

Madagascar Skin tells a dark, teasing tale of two very different men – played by John Hannah and Bernard Hill as you have never seen them before. Meeting on a bleak and barren coast, the […]

Sep, 15

A Single Man **** (2009, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult) – Classic Movie Review 4320

Films come and go, but writer-director Tom Ford’s outstanding 2009 drama will stay in the mind and on the screen, thanks partly to Christopher Isherwood’s source story, partly to the film’s extraordinarily high quality, partly to […]

Sep, 08

ChickLit ** (2016, Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Caroline Catz, Miles Jupp, David Troughton, Tom Palmer, Eileen Atkins, John Hurt) – Movie Review

Christian McKay, Miles Jupp, David Troughton and Tom Palmer star as four guys trying to save their local pub from closing by writing a chick lit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey-style ‘mummy porn’. McKay takes it to cynical London […]

Sep, 04

Mambo Italiano *** (2003, Luke Kirby, Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno, Peter Miller, Mary Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4264

An Italian-Canadian 20something, Angelo Barberini (Luke Kirby), comes out as gay to his nice Italian immigrant parents (Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno), who are horrified, after he leaves home to share his life with a closety policeman, […]

Aug, 28

An Early Frost **** (1985, Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, D W Moffett, John Glover, Sydney Walsh, Bill Paxton, Terry O’Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 4263

Director John Erman’s beautifully acted, extremely moving 1985 pioneering AIDS drama starts when successful young attorney Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) tells his family both that he is gay and that he is ill. Quinn gives […]

Aug, 28

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