Derek Winnert

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WarGames **** (1983, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin) – Classic Movie Review 9392

Director John Badham‘s 1983 thriller WarGames is a bang on target sci-fi fantasy adventure starring Matthew Broderick as teenage wiz kid David Lightman, who unwittingly taps his home computer into a top secret United States military super-computer […]

Feb, 16

Assassination Nation *** (2018, Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Writer-director Sam Levinson’s full-on, full-throttle Assassination Nation (2018) is hard to like and hard to sit through, but it is done with great enthusiasm and skill, and huge self-belief – and very considerable show-off style. It […]

Oct, 02

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Män som hatar kvinnor] **** (2009, Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Ewa Fröling) – Classic Movie Review 6100

Director Niels Arden Oplev’s 2009 Swedish thriller based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s series of novels about the disgraced financial campaigning journalist Mikael Blomkvist  (Michael Nyqvist) and the troubled, tattooed young computer hacker Lisbeth […]

Oct, 17

Ghost in the Shell *** (2017, Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt) – Movie Review

Ghost in the Shell is smart, smooth and slick, visually stylish and impressive, an interesting attempt at an arty blockbuster. But it is also a bit flat and one-note, as well as derivative, with many […]

Mar, 30

Criminal ** (2016, Kevin Costner, Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman, Alice Eve, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Michael Pitt) – Movie Review

Criminal may be fun, even a guilty pleasure, but it is a pretty bad sci-fi action thriller, with a ridiculous premise that’s impossible to swallow about the memories and skills of a dead CIA agent […]

Apr, 11

Tron **** (1982, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 2369

Co-producer/writer/director Steven Lisberger’s attractive and appealing 1982 surreal electronic-age Sci-Fi adventure from an unexpected Walt Disney Studios is smart, stylish, exciting and visually thrilling. It received nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Sound at the 55th Academy Awards and received […]

Apr, 08

Blackhat *** (2015, Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang, Ritchie Coster) – Movie Review

Director Michael Mann‘s thinking person’s action cyber-thriller is a competent, sometimes exciting entertainment. But it is also frustrating as it feels like there’s a much better movie trying to break out of if, and ultimately it […]

Feb, 19

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