Derek Winnert

Trash **** (2014, Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen, Wagner Moura) – Movie Review

Rickson Tevez and Eduardo Luis play Rafael and Gardo, trash-picking Brazilian boys from Rio’s slums, who find a wallet in their local garbage dump. When the cops show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet’s return, […]

Jan, 15 · in Uncategorized

Love Is Strange **** (2014, John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina are inspired to give perhaps their best ever acting in co-writer-director Ira Sachs’s haunting and moving drama. Adorable, so sweet and subtle and touching, Love Is Strange really gets to you. Lithgow […]

Jan, 15 · in Reviews

Mommy **** (2014, Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément) – Movie Review

Writer-director Xavier Dolan’s Mommy is such a scaldingly brilliant, brave, bold movie! The acting by the three principals is amazing. It is the official submission of Canada to the 87th Academy Awards foreign film award. […]

Jan, 14

Ex Machina *** (2015, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander) – Movie Review

Alex (28 Days Later) Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina is smart, fascinating and refreshingly different, but it’s not a complete success. Domhnall Gleeson stars as Caleb, a young computer programmer who is selected by creepy […]

Jan, 14

Testament of Youth *** (2014, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Hayley Atwell) – Movie Review

Alicia Vikander plays Edwardian British heroine Vera Brittain, who recalls her tempestuous coming of age during World War One in director James Kent’s film version of Vera Brittain’s great memoir of how the First World War affected […]

Jan, 14

Snow in Paradise **** (2014, Frederick Schmidt, Martin Askew, David Spinx) – Movie Review

Frederick Schmidt is amazing as London East End crook Dave, who gets his best friend Tariq (Aymen Hamdouchi) killed after a drug delivery. Propelled into shame and remorse, Dave discovers Islam by chance, but the gangsters […]

Jan, 14

Ordinary People ***** (1980, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch) – Classic Movie Review 2077

Director Robert Redford’s 1980 début as film director proves absolutely extraordinary and had the American Academy of Arts and Sciences lavishing four Oscars on it. Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture for […]

Jan, 13

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