Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Brimstone **** (2016, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Kit Harington, Carice van Houten) – Movie Review

Guy Pearce (now 49) has a grand old time as The Reverend, the apparently unstoppable vengeful preacher villain of Dutch writer-director Martin Koolhoven’s incredibly powerful, awe-inspiring epic 2016 Western. The movie is a real wow! So is […]

Oct, 17 · in Reviews

Their Finest *** (2016, Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Helen McCrory, Jake Lacy, Paul Ritter) – Movie Review

Gemma Arterton stars as Welsh writer Catrin Cole who lands a movie script-writing job during World War Two, working with the outwardly cynical but inwardly sincere and nice young Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin) and the older hack Raymond […]

Oct, 17 · in Reviews

Nocturama **** (2016, Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa) – Movie Review

Writer-director Bertrand Bonello’s delirious, bonkers thriller is set in a troubled Paris, where a group of disaffected young men and women in their early twenties carry out four bomb attacks at various central locations and then hide […]

Oct, 17

Snowden ****½ (2016, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Shailene Woodley, Nicolas Cage) – Movie Review

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is fired up and on fire as real-life NSA employee Edward Snowden who leaks thousands of the agency’s classified documents about illegal surveillance techniques to the press. In a hotel room, he spills the beans to […]

Oct, 17

Lion ** (2016, Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham) – Movie Review

Picked from 4000 boys and unable to speak English when filming began, little Sunny Pawar stars as Saroo, a five-year-old Indian boy who gets separated from his beloved older brother and lost on the streets of Calcutta, […]

Oct, 17

Tunes of Glory **** (1960, Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, Duncan Macrae, Gordon Jackson, John Fraser, Allan Cuthbertson, Peter McEnery) – Classic Movie Review 4481

An acting battle royal between theatrical knights Sir Alec Guinness (in a peculiar red wig) and Sir John Mills is the cornerstone of director Ronald Neame’s engrossing 1960 British military drama Tunes of Glory, with […]

Oct, 16

Free Fire **½ (2016, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Sam Riley, Brie Larson, Jack Reynor, Cillian Murphy, Enzo Cilenti, Michael Smiley, Noah Taylor) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Ben Wheatley’s 2016 black comedy action movie is an often funny but disreputable and not very fresh feeling Tarantino-style crime thriller, with a script (by Wheatley and Amy Jump) that looks like they were making […]

Oct, 16

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