Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Purge: Election Year ** (2016, Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson) – Movie Review

Frank Grillo returns as the Sergeant, Leo Barnes, from The Purge: Anarchy (2014) in this scrappy third Purge movie, each film weaker than its predecessor, after the excellent original The Purge (2013). Returning writer-director James DeMonaco does what he can to make it seem […]

Sep, 04 · in Uncategorized

BrOTHERHOOD *** (2016, Noel Clarke, Olivia Chenery, Nick Nevern, Arnold Oceng, Jason Maza) – Movie Review

Writer-director-star Noel Clarke completes his ‘Hood trilogy with BrOTHERHOOD, which has his hero Sam Peel (Clarke) facing up to the problems of his new grown-up world in which he has settled down with a girlfriend […]

Sep, 04 · in Uncategorized

ChickLit ** (2016, Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Caroline Catz, Miles Jupp, David Troughton, Tom Palmer, Eileen Atkins, John Hurt) – Movie Review

Christian McKay, Miles Jupp, David Troughton and Tom Palmer star as four guys trying to save their local pub from closing by writing a chick lit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey-style ‘mummy porn’. McKay takes it to cynical London […]

Sep, 04

War Dogs **** (2016, Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Steve Lantz, Bradley Cooper, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak) – Movie Review

Jonah Hill is great in his best The Wolf of Wall Street mode as real-life buccaneering wheeler and dealer Efraim Diveroli, who started up in the shady arms dealing business with his friend David Packouz (Miles […]

Sep, 04

Things to Come [L’avenir] **** (2016, Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob) – Movie Review

It never rains but it pours! Isabelle Huppert enchants as Paris high school philosophy teacher Nathalie, whose life starts coming apart at the seams when her difficult, possessive mother (Edith Scob) gets sick and dies, her husband (André Marcon) announces he is leaving […]

Sep, 04

Don’t Breathe **** (2016, Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto) – Movie Review

Jane Levy stars as Rocky, who, with her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) and their reluctant young friend Alex (Dylan Minnette), decides to take part in the robbery of a remote creepy old house owned by […]

Sep, 04

Circus World [The Magnificent Showman] *** (1964, John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte) – Classic Movie Review 4295

The Western meets the circus in director Henry Hathaway’s enjoyable old-style 1964 adventure movie, with John Wayne enjoying himself in a ripe and rich turn as circus owner Matt Masters leading a Wild West show through […]

Sep, 03

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