Derek Winnert

Perfect Blue [Pâfekuto burû] **** (1997) – Classic Movie Review 6053

Japanese pop singer Mima (voice of Mima Kirigoe) quits the hit pop idol group CHAM to pursue her dreams as an actress. She performs as rape victims and poses nude for magazines, and is haunted […]

Oct, 01 · in Uncategorized

Daphne **** (2017, Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) – Movie Review 

There are laughs, there is drama, there is romance and there is sex, but Daphne is a bit of a tough, gruelling movie. They have certainly taken the fun out of it. However, Emily Beecham is […]

Oct, 01 · in Uncategorized

The Summit [La Cordillera] *** (2017, Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Erica Rivas, Christian Slater, Paulina García) – Movie Review 

Ricardo Darín is excellent as President Hernán Blanco of Argentina, who is facing various crises in his private and public life while in the middle of the Summit of Latin American presidents in La Cordillera. Darín […]

Oct, 01

Home Again ** (2017, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, Nat Wolff, Pico Alexander, Jon Rudnitsky, Candice Bergen, Lake Bell) – Movie Review 

Reese Witherspoon plays 40-year-old single mom Alice, who has just left her English husband Austen (Michael Sheen) behind in New York and re-located to her late Oscar-winning film director father’s lovely house in Los Angeles. […]

Oct, 01

A Fantastic Woman [Una Mujer Fantástica] **** (2017, Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco) – Movie Review 

Sebastián Lelio’s ground-breaking transgender drama and world cinema masterwork A Fantastic Woman (2017) triumphed at the Oscars by winning Best Foreign Language Film of the Year for Chile. It stars Chilean actress, lyrical singer and trans woman Daniela Vega, […]

Oct, 01

1% ** (2017, Eddie Baroo, Ryan Corr, Aaron Fa’aoso, Matt Nable, Simone Kessell, Abbey Lee) – Movie Review 

Director Stephen McCallum’s punchy low-budget 2017 Australian crime thriller plays like a Sixties/ Seventies biker movie. It has a certain basic raw energy and revving dynamism on its side, but obviously it avoids anything like […]

Oct, 01

Goodbye Christopher Robin * (2017, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Will Tilston, Stephen Campbell Moore, Kelly Macdonald) – Movie Review 

Simon Curtis’s real-life biopic drama about children’s author A A Milne and his creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin Milne means well but it is largely miscalculated, misjudged, mismanaged and a quite frightful […]

Oct, 01

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