Derek Winnert

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Les Diaboliques [Diabolique] ***** (1955, Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault) – Classic Movie Review 2354i

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 French spine-tingling suspense classic is based on the ingenious tale Celle Qui N’Etait Plus by the clever writers of Vertigo, Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. This stupendous, vintage gem of a mystery […]

Apr, 04

Mona Lisa Smile *** (2003, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 2329

Director Mike Newell’s 2003 drama stars Julia Roberts, who flashes her big smile as Katherine Ann Watson, a free-spirited art professor at a posh, conservative Fifties American school, Wellesley College. As a free-thinking teacher, she is frustrated […]

Mar, 29

The Boy Next Door ** (2015, Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, John Corbett, Kristin Chenoweth, Ian Nelson) – Movie Review

Hell hath no fury like a man scorned, apparently. The Boy Next Door is quite a bad movie, but it’s still quite enjoyable and good, guilty-pleasure fun. One day it may even be in the […]

Feb, 25

The King and I **** (1956, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 2193

Director Walter Lang’s much loved five-Oscar-winning 1956 film of the Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) all-time great stage triumph, based on Margaret Landon’s book Anna and the King of Siam, is hugely […]

Feb, 20

St Vincent **** (2014, Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Jaeden Lieberher, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Bill Murray finds the perfect role for his grouchy persona in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic Vietnam war veteran who finds himself living next door to a new neighbour, overworked, just divorced single parent Maggie (Melissa McCarthy), and her […]

Dec, 04

Flirting **** (1991, Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman) – Classic Movie Review 1795

Writer-director John Duigan’s engrossing, beautifully crafted, sharp-witted 1991 coming-of-age tale is set in Australia during the 1960s in the gothic oppressions of an Australian public boarding school for boys, who are at the mercy of […]

Nov, 01

In & Out *** (1997, Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck) – Classic Movie Review 1778

Director Frank Oz’s good-natured and enterprising but shaky 1997 comedy stars Kevin Kline as a small-town American teacher who’s about to be married to his childhood sweetheart (Joan Cusack) when he is outed as gay […]

Oct, 24

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