Derek Winnert

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The Big Short **** (2015, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Adam McKay’s dynamic and janglingly vibrating movie tells three separate but parallel true stories of the America mortgage housing crisis of 2005 like it’s a near cousin of The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s […]

Jan, 14

The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman **½ (2013, Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Grint, James Buckley, Vincent D’Onofrio, Til Schweiger, Melissa Leo) – Movie Review

Shia LaBeouf stars as a young American called Charlie Countryman, whose mom (Melissa Leo) dies, and tells him from beyond the grave to travel abroad, go to Bucharest. On the plane there, a middle-aged Romanian guy […]

Oct, 30

Olympus Has Fallen *** (2013, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo) – Movie Review

My fellow people of the world, there’s bad news. Unfortunately, it seems that Olympus, that’s American Secret Service code for the White House, has fallen to pesky foreign terrorist invaders. They’ve flown in, shot up […]

Mar, 24

Frozen River ****½ (2008, Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 548

Melissa Leo should have won the Best Actress Oscar for her inspired star role in writer-director Courtney Hunt’s sizzling 2008 thriller, but, instead, Kate Winslet did for her merely highly professional performance in The Reader. […]

Dec, 19

Hide and Seek **** (2005, Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 116

Director John Polson (Swimfan) and writer Ari Schlossberg deliver an extremely sleek, eerie and effective psychological chiller, made in 2005. The polished production and the excellent, highly detailed performances of Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning […]

Aug, 01

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