Derek Winnert

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Winter’s Bone **** (2010, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt) – Classic Movie Review 3269

Writer-director Debra Granik scores a triumph with her scalding 2010 American independent feminist thriller, based on Daniel Woodrell’s 2006 novel. The 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence sweeps to stardom as a teenage girl in the rural Ozark […]

Jan, 16

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer [Bachelor Knight] **** (1947, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Ray Collins, Rudy Vallee, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 3084

Director Irving Reis’s and writer Sidney Sheldon ‘s witty 1947 screwball comedy, known as Bachelor Knight in the UK, stars Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple. Loy plays a judge, Judge Margaret Turner, who […]

Nov, 24

Now Is Good **½ (2012, Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Cole, Josef Altin) – Movie Review

Smart but sickly romance, with Dakota Fanning as Tessa Scott, a girl with leukaemia who compiles a list of things she’d like to do before dying, including losing her virginity. Fortunately, along comes that handy […]

Nov, 06

Badlands ***** (1973, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates) – Classic Movie Review 2,994

Terrence Malick’s 1973 American neo-noir period crime drama film Badlands in his spectacular directorial debut. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star as Fifties tearaways who go on a killing spree. Writer, producer-director Terrence Malick’s downbeat but exciting and […]

Oct, 18

Maggie ** (2015, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson) – Movie Review

Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys a chance to do some proper acting and show his caring side as Wade Vogel, the dad of American Midwest teenager Maggie (Abigail Breslin), who becomes infected by an outbreak of a plague […]

Jul, 23

The Beguiled **** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris) – Classic Movie Review 2577

Producer-director Don Siegel’s 1971 cult Civil War Western chiller is a rich and strange, and often quite beautiful movie. It was Siegel’s favourite of his films. It reunites him with Clint Eastwood, who stars as […]

Jun, 09

Girlhood [Bande de filles] *** (2014, Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh) – Movie Review

Writer-director Céline Sciamma‘s engrossing French coming-of-age epic tackles the thorny though much-examined issues of race, class and non-conformity, but in a fresh and furious way. Karidja Touré (actually 20 at the time) is remarkable in […]

May, 14

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