Derek Winnert

Roma ***** (2018, Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey) – Movie Review

Writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s Mexican masterpiece Roma (2018) is a magnificent movie, brilliantly staged, and gloriously realised in gorgeous black and white scope images, with a warm and winning saga, highlighted by a couple of heart-stopping […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

Cold War [Zimna wojna] **** (2018, Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn) – Movie Review

Writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski’s beautiful, passionate 2018 romantic drama Cold War [Zimna wojna] is a doomed love story about two mismatched people, set in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris against the background of the Fifties Cold War. It is a […]

Dec, 10 · in Reviews

Dogman **** (2018, Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Matteo Garrone’s 2018 Italian neo-realist relationships drama, crime movie and revenge thriller Dogman has a simmering and then scalding impact. It comes from the director of the 2008 Gomorrah. Dogman is one heck of a strong, hard and […]

Dec, 10

Faces Places [Visages villages] **** (2017, Agnès Varda, JR) – Movie Review

French New Wave film director Agnes Varda and young idealist photographer/ mural artist JR journey in a van through rural France, taking pictures and creating art, while forming a devoted unlikely if friendship. The van […]

Dec, 10

Apostasy **** (2017, Sacha Parkinson, Siobhan Finneran, Molly Wright, Robert Emms) – Movie Review

Writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo’s 2017 British drama Apostasy looks at the Jehovah’s Witnesses through a sharply clear, critical eye in his Oldham-set story of a working class family of three Jehovah’s Witness, a mother and her […]

Dec, 10

Boy Erased **** (2018,Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe) – Movie Review

Writer-director Joel Edgerton’s biographical drama Boy Erased is based on a memoir by Garrard Conley about the conversion therapy of an American  gay teenager. It is a very good, very compelling film, all too real film, […]

Dec, 10

Ralph Breaks the Internet ** (2018, voices of John C Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot) – Movie Review

Disney’s animated family flick Ralph Breaks the Internet is harmless but really tame and mildly irritating. It runs like an advert for almost every Internet company you have ever heard of, and trades heavily on […]

Dec, 09

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