Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "David Oyelowo"

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Captive ** (2015, Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers, Michael K Williams, Leonor Varela) – Movie Review

Life-affirming, uplifting entertainment has its place but it needs a tougher, grittier, more rigorous, challenging edge. Kate Mara plays real-life single mother drug user Ashley Smith who is held captive in her home by Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) on […]

Sep, 24

A Most Violent Year **** (2014, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks) – Movie Review

Recalling the young Al Pacino, no less, Oscar Isaac gives an electrifying performance as Abel Morales, an ambitious American immigrant who fights to protect his increasingly iffy business and his family during 1981, apparently the most […]

Jan, 06

Selma ****½ (2014, David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Tom Wilkinson) – Movie Review

David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo do a thoroughly excellent job of portraying Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King in this sterling re-creation of the civil rights marches of Selma, Alabama. There’s not been a major […]

Dec, 30

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