Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Uncategorized

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

Sorry to Bother You * (2018, Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Danny Glover, Armie Hammer) – Movie Review

Debut writer-director Boots Riley’s 2018 surreal satirical comedy Sorry to Bother You is a nice try, with ambition and intelligence behind it, but it is mostly strained and unamusing. It is pretty much a one-joke movie, […]

Dec, 09

Notes on a Scandal *** (2006, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Simpson, Michael Maloney, Tom Georgeson, Shaun Parkes, Phil Davis, Bill Nighy, Juno Temple) – Classic Movie Review 7897

Director Richard Eyre’s 2006 lesbian drama Notes on a Scandal was nominated for four Oscars. The smart screenplay is by Patrick Marber, based on the novel by Zoë Heller. Judi Dench is extremely effective cast against […]

Dec, 09

Mortal Engines ** (2018, Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Robert Sheehan, Leila George, Stephen Lang) – Movie Review

Director Christian Rivers’s 2018 teen fantasy action adventure Mortal Engines is very shakily based on the young adult novel of the same name by Philip Reeves. The story is cheesy and unconvincing on screen, lacking […]

Dec, 08

White Boy Rick ** (2018, Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Movie Review

It is easy to see what drew director Yann Demange to the story of the rise and fall of the teenage drug hustler Rick Wershe Jr for his real-life Eighties crime drama movie White Boy Rick. […]

Dec, 08

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