Derek Winnert

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

Some crazy movie, Dog Eat Dog (2016)!! A bunch of old guys behaving badly! Some crazy movie, Dog Eat Dog!! A bunch of old guys behaving badly, well we know what that’s like! Nicolas Cage, […]

Oct, 11 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Personal Shopper ***½ (2016, Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz) – Movie Review

Kristen Stewart teams up with writer-director Olivier Assayas after Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) to star as a personal shopper for a rich, busy star in a movie that dangerously tries mix a ghost story with a Paris fashion world drama and […]

Oct, 10

Kanal ***** (1957, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Emil Kariewicz) – Classic Movie Review 4471

In Andrzej Wajda’s forceful 1957 Polish film Kanal, which is based on an actual incident, resistance fighter patriots use Warsaw’s sewer system (‘kanal’) to try to escape German soldiers in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising […]

Oct, 10

A Generation [Pokolenie] ***** (1955, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Roman Polanski, Zbigniew Cybulski) – Classic Movie Review 4470

Great director Andrzej Wajda makes his film debut with this striking 1955 drama about the Warsaw Resistance during the German occupation of Poland in World War Two and a group of youths who battle love and adversity […]

Oct, 10

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