Derek Winnert

The Hundred-Foot Journey *** (2014, Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Director Lasse Hallström’s 2014 culture clash foodie movie may be a bit slack, bland and complacent but it is still quite diverting and pretty enjoyable. Its main attraction is that it is starring national treasure Helen […]

Sep, 04 · in Reviews

Before I Go to Sleep ** (2014, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong) – Movie Review

Nicole Kidman stars as Christine Lucas, a woman who wakes up every day remembering nothing as her memory is wiped every night during sleep after a traumatic accident in her past. As she tries to stitch together the […]

Sep, 04 · in Reviews

The Guest *** (2014, Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Ethan Embry) – Movie Review

Dan Stevens stars as David, an American soldier who suddenly turns up at the house of the Peterson family, introducing himself as the buddy of their son who’s died in action in Afganistan. Without too much hesitation or suspicion (though […]

Sep, 04

Sex Tape ** (2014, Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Lowe) – Movie Review

‘Who has sex for three hours? That’s the length of the movie Lincoln. You did the full Lincoln.’ Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel are well paired as married couple Annie and Jay, whose initially frantic love […]

Sep, 04

Fear and Desire ** (1953, Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Virginia Leith) – Classic Movie Review 1632

Co-writer/director Stanley Kubrick’s eye-catching, attention-grabbing first low-budget feature, made in 1953, is an almost abstract war story made when he was 25 with money from relatives and friends. Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp and […]

Sep, 03

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **** (1998, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro) – Classic Movie Review 1631

Game as always for anything smart and out of the ordinary, Johnny Depp gives an impressively crazed performance as blunt-talking journalist Raoul Duke in co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s imaginative, stylish, sometimes exciting 1998 movie of Hunter […]

Sep, 03

Before Night Falls ***** (2000, Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn) – Classic Movie Review 1630

This richly imagined journey into the life and writings of the brilliant openly gay Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) is a devastating, overwhelming piece of cinema, directed and co-written with passion and brilliance […]

Sep, 03

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