Derek Winnert

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The Face of an Angel ***½ (2014, Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne) – Movie Review

Director Michael Winterbottom’s intelligent and involving film takes the real-life Italian murder case of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and turns it into a sideways take on events, profitably focusing on a documentary film-maker/screenwriter (Daniel Brühl) and his […]

Mar, 26

The Ring *** (2002, Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox) – Classic Movie Review 2295

The 2002 horror movie The Ring stars Naomi Watts as journalist Rachel Keller who, while probing the death of her friend’s child, sees a videotape that brings death within a week to all who watch […]

Mar, 22

The Ring [Ringu] **** (1998, Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi) – Classic Movie Review 2294

Director Hideo Nakata’s 1998 seminal Japanese horror movie Ringu centres on an infamous mysterious killer videotape that is causing everyone who views it to die within a week. While probing the death of her friend’s […]

Mar, 21

Darling **** (1965, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 2,270

John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]

Mar, 15

Kill the Messenger ***½ (2014, Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Lucas Hedges) – Movie Review

Jeremy Renner is excellent in an intense, low-key performance as the real-life Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News journalist reporter who in 1996 exposes the CIA’s role in importing cocaine into California to raise funds […]

Mar, 05

Salvador ***** (1986, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 2076

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s brilliantly fired-up, exhilarating 1986 political thriller is a report from troubled Central America and is based on the real-life adventures of American photo-journalist Richard Boyle (played by a sizzling James Woods) who […]

Jan, 13

In the Mood for Love [Faa yeung nin wa] **** (2000, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu, Rebecca Pan) – Classic Movie Review 1915

Tony Leung (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung) stars in In the Mood for Love [Faa yeung nin wa] (2000) as a married newspaper editor, and Maggie Cheung plays a secretary who are drawn together after they both find […]

Dec, 05

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