Derek Winnert

Our Brand Is Crisis **** (2015, Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Reynaldo Pacheco) – Movie Review

Producer Sandra Bullock casts herself excitingly as an unstoppable political spin doctor in director David Gordon Green’s totally gripping and engrossing real-life story set in Bolivia in 2002. Bullock plays battle-hardened American political consultant Jane who […]

Jan, 20 · in Uncategorized

The 33 **** (2015, Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Gabriel Byrne, Juliette Binoche, Lou Diamond Phillips, James Brolin, Bob Gunton) – Movie Review

Gripping, sterling real-life thriller in which a Chilean gold and copper mine collapses as a piece of granite twice the mass of the Empire State Building collapses blocking the way out for 33 miners who find […]

Jan, 20 · in Reviews

Concussion **** (2015, Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks) – Movie Review

Will Smith commendably goes for a change of pace, a piece of real acting and a Nigerian accent as real-life accomplished pathologist Dr Bennet Omalu who, while he is working in Pittsburgh, uncovers the terrible […]

Jan, 20

Le Bal **** (1983, Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa) – Classic Movie Review 3287

Writer-director Ettore Scola’s beautiful, wordless 1983 French film tells the 50-year story of a ballroom in France from the 1920s onwards. Le Bal condenses five decades of 20th-century European history into a single night at a dance hall […]

Jan, 20

A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] **** (1977, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 3,286

The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]

Jan, 20

Gone Baby Gone **** (2007, Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 3285

The year 2007 was a great one for Casey Affleck. Hot on the heels of his Oscar-nominated performance in The Assassination of Jesse James comes his equally riveting turn as a rookie private detective hired […]

Jan, 20

Moon **** (2009, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 3284

Sam Rockwell stars as lonely astronaut Sam Bell , who is over the moon when his three-year job there is over and he’s to be reunited with his wife and young daughter. He’s being looked […]

Jan, 20

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