Derek Winnert

Futuro Beach [Praia do Futuro] **** (2014, Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuíta Barbosa) – Movie Review

Wagner Moura plays Brazilian coastguard Donato, who fails to rescue a drowning man, but falls for the victim’s biker friend Konrad (Clemens Schick). Motivated by the circumstances, Donato decides to begin a new life in Berlin, but […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

A Royal Night Out **** (2015, Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Jack Reynor, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett) – Movie Review

The Queen stars in a right royal romcom, or at least Sarah Gadon does, as the young Princess Elizabeth, who enjoys a night out away from her usual cares and duties on VE Day in […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

Mr Holmes ***½ (2015, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Frances de la Tour) – Movie Review

With a bit of Gandalf in there, and looking and sounding remarkably like Sir John Gielgud, Ian McKellen has a lot of fun slicing the ham as an aged, retired Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is […]

May, 06

Rosewater **** (2014, Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas) – Movie Review

In his courageous directorial debut, Jon Stewart writes and directs this real-life story about Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, who is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he might be a […]

May, 06

Top Five *** (2014, Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union) – Movie Review

Chris Rock takes a leaf out of Woody Allen’s book, writing, directing and starring in this semi-biographical romantic comedy about Andre Allen, a comedian who’s fed up with being ‘funny’. He decides to try to make […]

May, 06

The Age of Adaline *** (2015, Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker, Ellen Burstyn) – Movie Review

Blake Lively stars as Adaline Bowman a young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, who stops ageing after an accident at the age of 29. In her 40s, she starts worrying about […]

May, 06

The Queen of Spades **** (1949, Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2460

The 1949 fantasy horror film The Queen of Spades is based on the 1834 short story by Alexander Pushkin, and stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell. Martin Scorsese said: ‘This stunning film is one of the few true classics […]

May, 06

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