Derek Winnert

Trance – Film Review

After his triumph with the Olympics opening ceremony, the pressure is on Danny Boyle to come up with a film of genius. And here it kind of is. Boyle must have been the smartest kid […]

Apr, 06 · in Reviews

Jack The Giant Slayer – Film Review

Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman – and a couple of Scotsmen and an American too. Nicholas Hoult is perfectly fast as farm boy Jack, whose horse gets snatched by […]

Mar, 21 · in Reviews

Neighbouring Sounds [O Som ao Redor] **** (2012, Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings) – Movie Review

Both in scale and running time this is a truly epic, anxiety-propelled thriller from Brazil, set in its rundown metropolis of Recife, in a street where some rich folks are carefully guarding their nice properties […]

Mar, 20

The Paperboy ***½ (2012, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, Macy Gray, Scott Glenn) – Movie Review

Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman sizzle in this engrossing, devious Deep South 2012 erotic pulp thriller, set in the bad ol’ days of 1969. Admittedly, it’s not much of a mystery plot, very thin really, […]

Mar, 19

The Croods **** (2013, voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Cloris Leachman) – Movie Review

Highly recommended to all but the most cynical among us (you know who I mean), The Croods is a lovely, quirky delight with a sweet heart and loads of laughs. Thin on story, the good-natured, […]

Mar, 19

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone ** (2013, Steve Carell, Luke Vanek, Steve Buscemi, James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin, Olivia Wilde, Jay Mohr) – Movie Review

The meeting of comedy legends Steve Carell and Jim Carrey is the big news here, but how big is that news? Not all their movies are absolutely sidesplitting, even the ones that are meant to […]

Mar, 16

Oz the Great and Powerful **** (2013, James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz) – Movie Review

An astounding looking movie from its 1930s-style movie titles and black and white, narrow-screen start to its glorious widescreen, colour images in the land of Oz , this is an utterly ravishing and beguiling extravaganza. […]

Mar, 01

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