Derek Winnert

White Bird in a Blizzard **** (2015, Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez, Thomas Jane) – Movie Review

Taking a break from Divergent, Shailene Woodley takes a bold step and is commendably safe and secure as 1988 American teen Cat Connors, whose already difficult life is thrown into chaos when her mother (Eva Green) suddenly disappears. […]

Mar, 05 · in Reviews

Kill the Messenger ***½ (2014, Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Lucas Hedges) – Movie Review

Jeremy Renner is excellent in an intense, low-key performance as the real-life Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News journalist reporter who in 1996 exposes the CIA’s role in importing cocaine into California to raise funds […]

Mar, 05 · in Reviews

Cinderella *** (2015, Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Ben Chaplin, Derek Jacobi, Stellan Skarsgård, Helena Bonham Carter) – Movie Review

Disney remakes its classic 1950 animated feature as director Kenneth Branagh’s very likeable, traditional and romantic if rather dull and old-fashioned live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale about Cinderella, the orphaned servant step-daughter of the Wicked Stepmother, […]

Mar, 05

Chappie ***½ (2015, Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s AI movie is set in a wasted-looking Johannesburg in the near future when crime is rife but it is patrolled by an oppressive mechanised police force. The movie stars Dev Patel (last […]

Mar, 05

A Man Apart ** (2003, Vin Diesel, Timothy Olyphant, Larenz Tate) – Classic Movie Review 2239

Co-producer/director F Gary Gray’s 2003 muddled, middling action thriller stars Vin Diesel as a fiery undercover cop called Sean Vetter who is hot on the case of a drug lord. As a member of the […]

Mar, 05

Tarzan Escapes *** (1936, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, John Buckler) – Classic Movie Review 2238

In directors James C McKay, Richard Thorpe and John Farrow’s troubled 1936 Tarzan episode, Johnny Weissmuller’s King of the Apes, Maureen O’Sullivan’s Jane and Cheetah perform astonishing jungle high-jinks and fight off the usual quota […]

Mar, 04

Tarzan and His Mate **** (1934, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 2237

Directors Cedric Gibbons and Jack Conway’s welcome 1934 sequel to the 1932 hit Tarzan, the Ape Man again stars a long-haired, muscular Johnny Weissmuller, this time in his second appearance as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Ape […]

Mar, 04

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