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

X + Y ***½ (2104, Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang) – Movie Review

X + Y = a really rather good spirit-lifting British movie. It is spurred on to win by a lovely performance by Asa Butterfield as Nathan, a socially awkward English teenage maths prodigy who lands a […]

Mar, 11

Get Santa *** (2014, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Warwick Davis) – Movie Review

Okay, then it’s nearly Christmas, and everybody wants to see Jim Broadbent’s Santa Claus – and here it is! The ho-ho-ho jolly Broadbent’s got top billing is the showy, fun role. Broadbent’s a classy actor and […]

Nov, 20

What If *** (2013, Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan) – Movie Review

Daniel Radcliffe triumphantly takes on a Hugh Grant romcom role as posh Brit medical school dropout Wallace, burned out from failed relationships, who forms an instant bond with the slightly ditzy film animator Chantry (Zoe […]

Aug, 21

Life of Pi ***** (2012, Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu) – Classic Movie Review 280

‘I had to tame him’, Pi realizes. ‘It was not a question of him or me, but of him and me. We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.’ Boasting astounding cinematography, marvellous production […]

Oct, 09

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