Derek Winnert

White God ***½ (2014, Zsófia Psotta) – Movie Review

Zsófia Psotta is a little marvel as 13-year-old Lili, who fights to protect her dog Hagen and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Young though she is, she sets out to find […]

Feb, 27 · in Reviews

Predestination **** (2014, Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor) – Movie Review

Ethan Hawke stars as a time-travelling ‘temporal agent’ masquerading as a barman, who, as his final assignment, must pursue the one criminal who has eluded him throughout time. He is sent back in time to 1975 […]

Feb, 26 · in Reviews

The Duke of Burgundy *** (2014, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna) – Movie Review

Writer-director Peter Strickland’s follow-up to his Berberian Sound Studio is a teasing study of the power struggle between a sado-masochistic lesbian couple. That will be enough of a recommendation for some audiences, though which ones is not […]

Feb, 26

Cavalcade **** (1933, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 2215

Director Frank Lloyd’s 1933 drama Cavalcade is a creaky but still entertaining and stirring nostalgic movie version of Noël Coward’s sentimental English patriotic pageant stage play. It was a three-Oscar winner, for Best Picture, Best Director […]

Feb, 26

It Follows **** (2014, Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Lili Sepe, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi) – Movie Review

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s scary low-budget horror flick It Follows is creepy, clever and stylish. And if that isn’t recommendation enough, added to this it is just a little bit different, setting it out from the […]

Feb, 25

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel *** (2015, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Richard Gere, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench) – Movie Review

In an entertaining odd-couple double act, Dev Patel and Maggie Smith have the best of what’s going in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as their characters Sonny Kapoor and Muriel Donnelly pursue their expansionist dreams […]

Feb, 25

DragonHeart **** (1996, Dennis Quaid, Julie Christie, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, voice of Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 2214

Director Rob Cohen’s 1996 is Arthurian legend adventure film doesn’t quite star Sean Connery – only his inimitable voice and a computer-generated dragon based on his movements. It really is a performance that an actor […]

Feb, 25

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