Derek Winnert

Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] ***** (1947, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 914

Robert Mitchum gives a legendary performance as a one-time private eye, caught between a mobster (Kirk Douglas) and a femme fatale (Jane Greer), in the brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build […]

Mar, 15 · in Reviews

The Jacket (2005) – Classic Film Review 913

Director John Maybury’s ambitious, eye-catching 2005 film is a stylish, arty and impenetrably baffling puzzle thriller. Adrien Brody stars as a US Gulf War soldier who is shot in the head in Iraq in 1991 […]

Mar, 15 · in Reviews

Veronica Mars ** (2014, Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Jamie Lee Curtis, Percy Daggs III, Gaby Hoffmann, Ryan Hansen, Jerry O’Connell, James Franco) – Movie Review

Here’s a bit of an oddball curio. A US telly show from 2004-2007 that no one here in the UK seems to have heard of gets a belated big-screen spinoff thanks to Kickstarter, which raised […]

Mar, 14

The Zero Theorem – Film Review

The ace in the modest hand of Terry Gilliam’s intriguing but rather scrappy futuristic pantomime is Christoph Waltz as bald computer hacker Qohen Leth. He works for the all-powerful Mancom corporation, whose boss is none […]

Mar, 14

The Stag *** (2013, Andrew Scott, Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Michael Legge) – Movie Review

A bachelor stag party weekend in the great outdoors takes some strange but not entirely unexpected detours. Surprisingly, maybe, co-writer/director John Butler’s film comedy is very likeable and amusing, well acted by a good cast, […]

Mar, 14

Under the Skin *** (2013, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay) – Movie Review

British director Jonathan Glazer’s loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s 2000 novel is a unique, difficult and quite alienating movie. It’s hard work having a good time with Under the Skin. But Scarlett Johansson impresses enormously […]

Mar, 14

Need for Speed ** (2014, Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton) – Movie Review

Lacking much in the way of credibility, excitement or a sense of fun, Need for Speed is shameless junk. It’s predictable, tension free and so darned boring. With all this rushing around on screen, how can that […]

Mar, 13

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