Derek Winnert

Unbroken **** (2014, Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Luke Treadaway, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review

Unbroken is a gruelling, harrowing and upsetting true-life story of unimaginably appalling wartime suffering. But the film is brilliantly done and another feather in the cap of our little marvel Jack O’Connell. O’Connell hits the […]

Dec, 18 · in Reviews

Exodus: Gods and Kings *** (2014, Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, John Turturro, Ben Mendelsohn) – Movie Review

The Gospel according to director Ridley Scott is a typically beautifully crafted, visually stunning affair that he tries desperately hard to turn into Gladiator 2, with Moses as an action hero, and inevitably mostly fails. It’s not […]

Dec, 18 · in Reviews

Big Eyes ***½ (2014, Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz) – Movie Review

Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are totally excellent as the real-life naïve painter Margaret Keane and her husband Walter in director Tim Burton’s admirable, loving biopic. The film’s thoroughly likeable and appealing without necessarily being an award-winner or […]

Dec, 18

Kon-Tiki **** (2012, Pål Sverre Hagen) – Movie Review

Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s riveting real-life sea-faring tale is excitingly told, with a couple of twists at the end, one of them the thrilling big finish. This is the manly story of legendary famous Norwegian […]

Dec, 18

Dumb and Dumber To **½ (2014, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle) – Movie Review

Dumb and Dumber To brings the retired retards Harry and Lloyd back out of mothballs for a desperate update, with original stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and original writer-directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly. The shameful, appallingly […]

Dec, 18

Annie *** (2014, Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale) – Movie Review

At the age of nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). Now a veteran of 11, the Louisiana little lady gets her […]

Dec, 18

Animal Attraction ** (2001, Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Barkin) – Classic Movie Review 1973

Director Tony Goldwyn’s 2001 romantic comedy stars Ashley Judd as Jane Goodale, a TV producer and talent scout of a popular daytime talk show, who is unexpectedly jilted by her boyfriend, the show’s dashing executive […]

Dec, 18

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