Derek Winnert

Ma ma **** (2015, Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia) – Movie Review

Supremely graceful and moving, Penélope Cruz is great as divorced mother Magda, who in the wake of confronting the tragedy of her diagnosis with breast cancer, reacts with a surge of new life. The same she meets Real Madrid scout Arturo […]

Jun, 24 · in Uncategorized

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows *½ (2016, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Tyler Perry) – Movie Review

Complete with drossy dialogue and a warmed-up feel, director Dave Green’s lazily plotted 2016 sequel strands its actors in acres of soulless CGI in this disappointing follow-up to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). Top billed Megan Fox has […]

Jun, 24 · in Uncategorized

Moonlight and Valentino ** (1995, Elizabeth Perkins, Whoopi Goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathleen Turner, Jon Bon Jovi) – Classic Movie Review 3906

Elizabeth Perkins stars as a college poetry professor, whose husband is killed in a jogging accident, in this emotional romantic drama, based on a play by Ellen Simon. Perkins has a support system of friends […]

Jun, 23

Moonfleet *** (1955, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindors, Jon Whiteley) – Classic Movie Review 3905

Director Fritz Lang’s lively but cardboard-looking 1955 vintage costume adventure, based freely on J Meade Falkner’s classic story, is way off Lang’s usual territory. It is somewhat shakily made as what looks like a chore […]

Jun, 23

La Vie en Rose [La môme] ***** (2007, Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory) – Classic Movie Review 3904

Marion Cotillard becomes the fourth French person to win an Oscar in a magnificent tour de force as singer Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Among her total of 27 awards for her amazing performance in the film, she […]

Jun, 23

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt **** (1956, Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz) – Classic Movie Review 3,903

Fritz Lang’s 1956 RKO film noir thriller Beyond a Reasonable Doubt stars Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine in a story about a writer’s plan to expose a corrupt district attorney that takes an unexpected turn. […]

Jun, 23

Adult Life Skills *** (2016, Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein, Rachael Deering, Eileen Davies, Alice Lowe, Edward Hogg) – Movie Review

Appealing Jodie Whittaker does well as Anna, a totally unresolved woman of nearly 30, who is stuck living like a hermit in her mum’s garden shed in confident writer-director Rachel Tunnard’s warm and friendly Brit comedy. A […]

Jun, 22

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