Derek Winnert

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Private Lessons [Élève Libre] *** (2008) – Classic Movie Review 13,395

The 2008 Belgian drama film Private Lessons [Élève Libre] stars Jonas Bloquet as a troubled teenager who fails his exams but thinks he can have a pro tennis career. He desperately needs some help.  Co-writer/ […]

Feb, 10

Jonas [I Am Jonas] ***½ (2018, Félix Maritaud, Nicolas Bauwens, Tommy-Lee Baïk) – Classic Movie Review 12,434

The haunting 2018 French gay-themed movie I Am Jonas takes the risky bold step of switching continuously between present and past, and succeeds perfectly, becoming as exciting as any first-rate thriller. Writer/ director Christophe Charrier’s […]

Feb, 28

Like Minds [Murderous Intent] *** (2006, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette) – Classic Movie Review 12,426

Toni Collette stars in the creepy and compelling 2006 Australian psychological thriller film Like Minds as a forensic psychologist who interrogates an English boarding schoolboy (Eddie Redmayne) to try to find out whether he is […]

Feb, 15

Night Hair Child (1972, Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Kruger, Harry Andrews, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 11,797

Director James Kelley’s 1972 horror thriller film Night Hair Child [What the Peeper Saw] [Diabólica Malicia] stars Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Kruger, Harry Andrews, and Lilli Palmer. Stepmother Elise (Ekland)’s sweet-seeming 12-year-old schoolboy stepson Marcus […]

Dec, 17

A Separate Peace *** (2004, J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts, Danny Swerdlow, Hume Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,383

Peter Yates’s final film remakes A Separate Peace from the 1959 novel by John Knowles. Director Peter Yates’s 2004 Canadian coming-of-age drama A Separate Peace is a welcome TV movie remake of Larry Pearce’s 1972 […]

Jul, 12

Lady in White ***½ (1988, Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond) – Classic Movie Review 10,972

The eerie 1988 supernatural mystery horror film Lady in White stars Lukas Haas as a schoolboy in 1962 upstate New York mixed up in a series of child murders after he witnesses the ghost of […]

Feb, 28

Zéro de Conduite [Zero for Conduct] ***** (1933, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Delphin) – Classic Movie Review 8655

Writer-director Jean Vigo’s brilliantly imaginative, anarchic classic 1933 short feature film Zéro de Conduite [Zero for Conduct] is about the rebellion of three boys in a deeply unpleasant, rigid, repressive French boarding school. Zero for […]

Jun, 29

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