Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gay lead characters"

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Watercolors ***½ (2008, Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Greg Louganis, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 12,750

The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love.  ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’  ‘Only art […]

Dec, 07

Soft Lad *** (2015, Jonny Labey, Suzanne Collins, Daniel Brocklebank, Laura Ainsworth, Craig Stein) – Classic Movie Review 12,743

‘We can’t always have what we want.’ Writer/ director Leon Lopez’s impressive, engrossing 2015 British emotional drama film Soft Lad is an enterprising micro budget self-funded feature starring Daniel Brocklebank, Jonny Labey, Suzanne Collins, Craig […]

Dec, 03

Being 17 [Quand on a 17 ans] **** (2016, Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret) – Classic Movie Review 12,732

André Téchiné’s 2016 French romantic drama Being 17 is a complex, emotional and mature film, with the focus on two teenage boys (Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila) and their story, but Sandrine Kiberlain deservedly gets […]

Nov, 29

Hard *** (1998, Noel Palomaria, Malcolm Moorman, Charles Lanyer) – Classic Movie Review 12,720

A gay serial killer plays cat and mouse with a rookie gay police detective in the R-rated 1998 thriller film Hard. Unusually, it is both grisly and thoughtful. ‘A cop with a secret. A killer […]

Nov, 17

Screwed [Pihalla] *** (2017, Mikko Kauppila, Valtteri Lehtinen, Sanna Majuri, Juho Keskitalo) – Classic Movie Review 12,655

The charming 2017 Finnish gay coming of age drama film Screwed [Pihalla] stars Mikko Kauppila and Valtteri Lehtinen as Miku and Elias, who find themselves, and each other, during a summer in the Finnish countryside. […]

Sep, 27

The Wounded Man [L’Homme Blessé] ***½ (1983, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 12,649

Patrice Chéreau’s controversial, heavy-weight 1983 French film The Wounded Man [l’Homme Blessé] stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno in a kind of obsessive love story between a teenage boy and an older man involved in […]

Sep, 21

Jess & James *** (2015, Martín Karich, Nicolás Romeo, Federico Fontán) – Classic Movie Review 12,524

The lively and liberating 2015 Argentinian film Jess & James stars Martín Karich as bohemian, hedonistic young Jess and Nicolás Romeo as mother dominated James, who hook up and set off on a fun-filled, loving […]

May, 29

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