Derek Winnert

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Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker ** (2019, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Adam Driver) – Movie Review

J J Abrams’s Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019) brings the 40-year saga to a lame and limping end in the final chapter. It feels reheated and lukewarm. In the movies, […]

Dec, 24

And Then We Danced **** (2019, Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili, Giorgi Tsereteli) – Movie Review

Levan Gelbakhiani stars as Merab, a talented young dancer at the National Georgian Ensemble, whose world is rocked when the alluring Irakli (Bachi Valishvili) muscles in on the scene, in writer-director Levan Akin’s thoroughly enjoyable […]

Oct, 07

Lianna *** (1983, Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries) – Classic Movie Review 7672

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1983 drama Lianna looks at the life of troubled 30something woman Lianna (Linda Griffiths), unhappily married to arrogant Dick (JohnDeVries), and her growing sexual and loving attraction to a female teacher friend […]

Oct, 17

Beach Rats **** (2017, Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, Neal Huff, Harrison Sheehan) – Movie Review

Writer-director Eliza Hittman’s provocative coming-of-age/ coming-out drama is intelligent, thoughtful, exciting, intensely gripping, involving and sexy. Movies are all in the detail, and this is superbly detailed and nuanced. Harris Dickinson is outstanding as a […]

Nov, 21

Call Me by Your Name ***** (2017, Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel) – Movie Review

Director Luca Guadagnino’s gloriously, unashamedly, outrageously romantic gay movie coming-of-age tale of first love Call Me by Your Name is based on André Aciman’s acclaimed debut novel published in 2007. This is one heck of […]

Oct, 09

After Louie *** (2017, Alan Cumming, Zachary Booth, Sarita Choudhury) – Movie Review

Alan Cumming stars as 55-year-old New York City artist Sam, who seeks to make a video about the life of his friend, who died in the 1980s and 1990s era when they were AIDS activists and […]

Mar, 17

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