Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Dog Eat Dog *** (2016, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook, Paul Schrader) – Movie Review

Some crazy movie, Dog Eat Dog!! A bunch of old guys behaving badly, well we know what that’s like! Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook star as ex-con buddies Troy, Mad Dog and Diesel, […]

Oct, 11

Goldstone *** (2016, Alex Russell, Aaron Pedersen, David Wenham, Jacki Weaver) – Movie Review

Alex Russell stars as Josh, a young eager-beaver cop, laidback in the Outback, who arrests a drunken driver and takes him to jail. He turns out to be Aboriginal Detective Jay Swan, played by the film’s other […]

Oct, 10

Paterson ***½ (2016, Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Barry Shabaka Henley) – Movie Review

Adam Driver is charming and funny in writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s amusing and touching 2016 comedy drama. It is quirky, quite deliciously quirky. Driver plays a character called Paterson, oddly enough, who lives and works as a bus driver in […]

Oct, 10

A Quiet Passion **** (2016, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Joanna Bacon, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Duncan Duff) – Movie Review

Cynthia Nixon is astonishing as the American poet Emily Dickinson in writer-director Terence Davies’s 2016 biographical drama film A Quiet Passion. Emily Dickinson: ‘Clarity is one thing; obviousness is quite another.’ Cynthia Nixon is tremendous, […]

Oct, 10

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