Derek Winnert

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Mojave ***½ (2015, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, Mark Wahlberg) – Movie Review

‘This started in the desert and it’s gonna end there. You understand? This has to play out.’ Garrett Hedlund stars in this intriguing 2015 film noir-style psycho thriller oddity as depressed film-maker Thomas, who goes into […]

Mar, 19

Star Wars: The Force Awakens **** (2015, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill) – Movie Review

After the perhaps rather underwhelming last three Star War films, director J J Abrams said he wanted The Force Awakens to be closer to the original trilogy and that’s exactly what he’s come up with – a […]

Dec, 16

Ex Machina *** (2015, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander) – Movie Review

Alex (28 Days Later) Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina is smart, fascinating and refreshingly different, but it’s not a complete success. Domhnall Gleeson stars as Caleb, a young computer programmer who is selected by creepy […]

Jan, 14

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

In Secret *** (2013, Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Lange, Tom Felton) – Movie Review

Elizabeth Olsen stars in this intense, well-acted film of Emile Zola’s 1867 tragic romance as the sexually repressed beautiful young tragic heroine Therese Raquin. Jessica Lange co-stars as her domineering aunt Madame Raquin, who traps into a loveless […]

May, 13

The Two Faces of January **** (2014, Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, Kirsten Dunst) – Movie Review

Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac are riveting in writer-director Hossein Amini’s tense, twisty and sleek adaptation of the 1964 Patricia Highsmith novel, filmed in the polished vintage-style Hitchcock mode. As usual, Viggo is particularly excellent as the […]

May, 13

Inside Llewyn Davis ***** (2013, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman) – Movie Review

Another absolutely corker from the Coen Brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis is witty, quirky, funny, atmospheric and deliciously dark-hued. But it is charming, wise, enjoyably melancholic and hauntingly bitter-sweet too. Have the Coens mellowed over the years? […]

Oct, 13

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