Derek Winnert

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Life Itself **** (2018, Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Cooke) – Movie Review

Writer-director Dan Fogelman’s romantic drama Life Itself is thoroughly entertaining, charming, and even beguiling. As tears mix with joy, Life Itself is a celebration of life itself. Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde star as young […]

Oct, 15

Heatwave **** (1982, Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, John Gregg, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 7202

Director Phillip Noyce’s sizzling 1982 Australian film Heatwave is based on the real life mysterious disappearance and murder of Juanita Nielsen, immediately following Donald Crombie’s earlier film inspired by the story, The Killing of Angel Street (1981). An architect takes on the […]

Jun, 21

Les Portes de la Nuit **** (1946, Pierre Brasseur, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 5268

Marcel Carné’s gorgeously atmospheric 1946 French semi-classic film tells a typically doomed love story and is set in the nocturnal, winter Paris of the immediate post-war period. Yves Montand and Raymond Bussières play buddies who […]

Apr, 07

Christine **** (2016, Rebecca Hall, Michael C Hall, Tracy Letts) – Movie Review

An inspired Rebecca Hall gives superlative, career-best performance as Seventies American TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, battling depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career. Writer Craig Shilowich tip-toes subtly and persuasively through to the core of this heartbreaking […]

Jan, 24

The Music Teacher [Le Maître de Musique] **** (1988, José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec Patrick Bauchau, Johan Leysen, Marc Schreiber) – Classic Movie Review 4001

Co-writer/ director Gérard Corbiau’s valuable Oscar-nominated Belgian 1988 music drama stars Brussels-born bass-baritone José Van Dam as aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac, who retires from singing to the countryside to coach two young singers, Sophie Maurier (Anne Roussel) and Jean Nilson (Philippe Volter). […]

Jul, 12

Chimes at Midnight [Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight] ****½ (1965, Orson Welles, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Keith Baxter, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 2384

Writer-director-star Orson Welles finally realises a long-cherished pet project in 1965 in grand style with a little help from his friends John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Keith Baxter and Margaret Rutherford– a film of his stage […]

Apr, 12

The Grass Harp **** (1995, Edward Furlong, Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 1452

Director Charles Matthau’s 1995 film is a civilised treat. The 18-year-old Edward Furlong stars as an orphan boy who, back in the 1930s, goes to live with his two dotty aunts (Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek) […]

Jul, 19

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