Derek Winnert

Devil’s Knot *** (2013, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon) – Film Review

Director Atom Egoyan delivers an honest, conscientious and compelling film dramatization of the real-life savage murders of three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore – in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993, and the subsequent […]

Jun, 12 · in Reviews

Of Horses and Men **** (2013) – Movie Review

This rich and strange 2013 Icelandic tragi-comic charmer (originally Hross í oss) is written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson and produced by fellow director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It was selected as the Icelandic entry for […]

Jun, 12 · in Reviews

Belle **** (2013, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid) – Movie Review

Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Dido Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy officer, brought as a child to England by her father Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), who leaves her in the […]

Jun, 11

Oculus *** (2013, Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Annalise Basso, Garrett Ryan, Rory Cochrane, Kate Siegel, Miguel Sandoval, James Lafferty) – Movie Review

A haunted mirror, that’s the big problem here. It’s an ornate antique that throughout the ages makes its owners kill themselves and other. Now that’s really not nice, is it? And it’s nothing new either, maybe. Yet […]

Jun, 11

T.S. Spivet **** (2013, Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis) – Movie Review

Kyle Catlett stars as the titular T.S. Spivet a 10-year-old prodigy into cartography and scientific inventions. When he gets news from the Smithsonian Museum telling him he’s won the prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine, he […]

Jun, 11

Drop Dead Gorgeous ***½ (1999, Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Kirstie Alley, Allison Janney, Brittany Murphy, Amy Adams, Matt Malloy, Nora Dunn, Adam West) – Classic Movie Review 1316

Director Michael Patrick Jann’s 1999 comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous is a hilarious, bad-taste fake documentary (‘mockumentary’) about a Minnesota small town teen-pageant beauty contest, in which poor girl Kirsten Dunst fights it out with rich […]

Jun, 11

Providence **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 1314

Director Alain Resnais’s lovingly crafted 1977 drama was his first English-language film. It’s a total treat for the discerning. The great and good John Gielgud steals the acting honours even from Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, […]

Jun, 11

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