Derek Winnert

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Escape from Pretoria **** (2020, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Francis Annan’s real-life thriller Escape from Pretoria is a good old-fashioned prison escape story, with a commendably intense and non-starry performance by Daniel Radcliffe as a Seventies jailed ANC activist who makes a huge […]

Mar, 06

Moffie ***** (2019, Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey) – Movie Review

Oliver Hermanus’s beautiful yet brutal study of closeted homosexuality in the Apartheid-era military. Back in the bad old days of Apartheid and the early Eighties, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Van der Swart is a self-denying gay man […]

Oct, 09

Invictus **** (2009, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge) – Classic Movie Review 4316

There were two Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe nominations – but no wins – for director Clint Eastwood’s sterling 2009 biopic. Well, you can’t win every time, though the odd nod in the right […]

Sep, 08

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