Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gay interest"

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The Opposite of Sex *** (1998, Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott) – Classic Movie Review 1093

Writer-director Don Roos’s funny, bitchy, and sometimes witty 1998 black comedy deliberately skates on thin ice, and then falls in unintentionally. After the death of her hated stepfather, a 16-year-old Louisiana supervixen called Dede Truitt […]

Apr, 14

Tom at the Farm [Tom à la ferme] **½ (2013, Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy) – Movie Review

In this French-Canadian gay film, made in Quebec, director Xavier Dolan stars as Tom, who is in a torment of grief and depression just after the death of his male lover. He hoves up uninvited at the […]

Apr, 06

Total Eclipse ** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer) – Classic Movie Review 1038

Director Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play (with a screenplay by the playwright himself) about the destructive mutual passion of the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rambeau and Paul Verlaine is a depressing fiasco […]

Apr, 02

The Rules of Attraction **** (2002, James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue, Kate Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 956

Producer-writer-director Roger Avary’s 2002 corrosive black comedy, based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, is crazy tale of intertwining lives at college, centring on a frustrated love quartet. James Van […]

Mar, 22

The Broken Hearts Club **** (2000, Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, Ben Weber, John Mahoney, Mary McCormack, Nia Long) – Classic Movie Review 929

Writer-director Greg Berlanti’s 2000 comedy is that rare mainstream movie – a quality, funny, perceptive, life-affirming character study of a group of gay men living, loving and bitching in West Hollywood, LA. Happily, in the […]

Mar, 17

Bad Education [La Mala Educación] **** (2004, Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara) – Classic Movie Review 826

With La Mala Educación in 2004, Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar returns to the style and content of the films that made him famous in the Eighties with this provocative and sizzlingly stylish look at male […]

Feb, 13

The Next Best Thing ***½ (2000, Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt) – Classic Movie Review 770

Director John Schlesinger’s 2000 movie stars a surprisingly but ideally paired Madonna and Rupert Everett, who give expert, engaging performances in a witty and appealing romantic comedy-drama. Robert is gay and Abbie is his best pal. […]

Jan, 29

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