Derek Winnert

Black Nativity – Film Review

Writer-director Kasi Lemmons’s film of Langston Hughes’s famous 1961 African-American stage musical is a well-crafted, conscientious labour of love. A modern-day, reinterpreted story concerns Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen raised by his about-to-be-evicted single mother in Baltimore, […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

Getaway – Film Review

Ethan Hawke stars as a former racing superstar called Brent Magna, who’s ordered by a mystery villain to steal a state-of-the-art car and complete a series of crazy, high-speed, dangerous daredevil stunts against the clock […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

Powder Room ** (2013, Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Kate Nash, Oona Chaplin) – Movie Review

Based on the stage play When Women Wee, fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011 when it was staged at London’s Soho Theatre, Powder Room is set in the ladies’ loo of a down-at-heel […]

Dec, 06

Big Bad Wolves – Film Review

A full-on Israeli horror thriller with an unsettling black comedy spin, Big Bad Wolves bears a strong resemblance plotwise to the Hugh Jackman thriller Prisoners. Children are being abducted and brutally murdered. The main suspect in the […]

Dec, 06

Frozen **** (2013, voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad) – Movie Review

Another year, another Walt Disney animation. After Wreck-It Ralph, they go back to basics with an old-fashioned fairy tale, a princess, a wicked queen, happy comedy relief, a quest, a threat, some danger, a warm-hearted message, […]

Dec, 06

Into the Blue *** (2005, Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott, Josh Brolin, James Frain) – Classic Movie Review 475

Paul Walker stars as Jared, paired with Jessica Alba as Sam, in this gorgeous looking, cheerily escapist 2005 action adventure thriller. It’s the noughties version of The Deep – remember Jacqueline Bisset in her wet […]

Dec, 05

O Lucky Man! ***** (1973, Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 474

Malcolm McDowell, who played the hero of If…, stars in Lindsay Anderson’s superb 1973 satirical life allegory about Mick Travis, now involved in the shady work of big business. The 1973 film O Lucky Man! […]

Dec, 05

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