Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

I, Daniel Blake **** (2016, Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy) – Movie Review

Director Ken Loach’s highly emotional, heartbreaking 2016 Cannes Palme D’Or winner is the story of two nice, well-meaning people in trouble – a late middle-aged carpenter who requires state benefits to live after recovering from a heart […]

Oct, 14 · in Reviews

Nocturnal Animals *** (2016, Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, Ellie Bamber, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Karl Glusman, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney) – Movie Review

Amy Adams impresses yet again – not quite as much as in Arrival, but nearly – as ice-cool art gallery owner Susan, who is haunted by her ex-husband Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal)’s violent thriller novel that […]

Oct, 14 · in Reviews

American Honey **** (2016, Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough) – Movie Review

The 21-year-old from Dallas, Sasha Lane, makes a spectacular film debut as Star, an alluring lost teenager who is recruited by the wild and sexy Jake (Shia LaBeouf) to join his travelling magazine sales crew. As she crosses […]

Oct, 14

Inferno **½ (2016, Tom Hanks, Ben Foster, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen) – Movie Review

After all his previous problems in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (2009), you’d think Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) would be enjoying some well deserved peace and quiet, especially after all those dead priests […]

Oct, 14

Prevenge ***½ (2016, Alice Lowe, Tom Davis, Kate Dickie, Gemma Whelan, Jo Hartley) – Movie Review

Coventry-born Alice Lowe, who wrote Sightseers (2012), now writes and directs her first feature, Prevenge, and gives herself the star role of Ruth, a pregnant woman way beyond the verge. Indeed the verge is just a distant […]

Oct, 12

Arrival **** (2016, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner star as linguists who are recruited by the US military, led by Forest Whitaker’s bossy Colonel Weber, to assist in translating communications with aliens who have touched down in mysterious spacecraft at […]

Oct, 11

The Birth of a Nation *** (2016, Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley) – Movie Review

Writer-director Nate Parker’s 2016 biographical drama tells the true story of Nat Turner, born into slavery, but who becomes literate and a preacher in the antebellum American South of Virginia in 1831. Nat preaches to his fellow slaves, encouraging them […]

Oct, 11

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