Derek Winnert

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Suicide Squad **½ (2016, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez) – Movie Review

Aha, Suicide Squad begins, Suicide Squad assembles. Channelling Joan Allen’s Pam Landy in the Bourne films, Viola Davis stars as Amanda Waller, the bad-ass boss of a secret government agency, who recruits an anti-hero strike team of incarcerated, Death Row super-villains to execute […]

Aug, 06

The Daughter *** (2015, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Anna Torv, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider, Kate Box, Odessa Young, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

In his directorial debut feature, Simon Stone writes and directs an interesting riff on Henrik Ibsen’s 1884 Norwegian classic play The Wild Duck, moving it to a modern setting and Australia, filming in Sydney. It is all about […]

May, 29

Trumbo **** (2015, Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Elle Fanning) – Movie Review

Director Jay Roach’s riveting 2015 movie tells the crucial story of the diabolical Hollywood blacklist and America’s persecution of left-wingers and radicals that brought appalling harm to individuals, some jailed after committing no crime, and shame […]

Jan, 13

Lust for a Vampire **½ (1971, Ralph Bates, Michael Johnson, Yutte Stensgaard, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Mike Raven, Helen Christie) – Classic Movie Review 2,892

The 1971 horror film Lust for a Vampire is the second of Hammer Films’ three movies derived from J Sheridan Le Fanu’s book Carmilla. Though star Ralph Bates described it as ‘one of the worst […]

Sep, 08

Maggie ** (2015, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson) – Movie Review

Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys a chance to do some proper acting and show his caring side as Wade Vogel, the dad of American Midwest teenager Maggie (Abigail Breslin), who becomes infected by an outbreak of a plague […]

Jul, 23

Othello **** (1952, Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote, Fay Compton) – Classic Movie Review 2448

Orson Welles gives a noble, layered, tempered performance of great majesty and power as Othello, The Moor of Venice, in his lovingly made film of the William Shakespeare play which won the joint Palme D’Or […]

May, 02

Jauja *** (2014, Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby, Viilbjørk Malling Agger) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Lisandro Alonso’s striking, rigorous experimental pseudo-Western stars Viggo Mortensen as Gunnar Dinesen, a dad who travels with his teenage daughter from Denmark in the late 19th century to an unknown Patagonia desert that apparently ‘exists […]

Apr, 11

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