Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "hallucination"

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The Lighthouse *** (2019, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are both tremendous under very difficult circumstances in perfectly judged performances as lighthouse keepers Thomas Howard and Thomas Wake going crazy while living and working on a remote New England […]

Jan, 31

Some Voices *** (2000, Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Graham, Peter McDonald) – Classic Movie Review 6888

Director Simon Cellan Jones’s interesting and worthwhile 2000 dark comedy drama Some Voices features an early full-on performance by Daniel Craig as Ray, a schizophrenic just discharged from psychiatric hospital, who causes havoc in his […]

Apr, 06

Altered States **** (1980, William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban) – Classic Movie Review 5450

Director Ken Russell’s engrossing 1980 sci-fi horror thriller Altered States stars William Hurt as Eddie Jessup. a troubled Harvard scientist who is obsessed with finding the truth about man’s existence and understanding his place in […]

May, 14

Rings * (2017, Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Movie Review

Director F Javier Gutiérrez’s lame and struggling 2017 supernatural horror movie is an incoherent, arbitrary and pointless reboot of The Ring (2002) and The Ring Two (2005). Since there is no sign of original series star Naomi […]

Feb, 15

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll **** (2010, Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams, Sam Spruell) – Classic Movie Review 4336

Finally leaving the ghost of Gollum far behind, Andy Serkis gives a stunning, knockout performance – way the best he has ever done – in director Mat Whitecross’s marvellously full-on, in-your-face 2010 biopic of troubled, […]

Sep, 11

Solaris [Solyaris] ***½ (1972, Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet) – Classic Movie Review 4209

Esteemed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi epic is intelligent, challenging and visually wonderful, thanks to Mikhail Romadin’s brilliant art direction, but it also seems impenetrable, pretentious and vastly overlong at 167 minutes. The screenplay […]

Aug, 20

Beyond Bedlam * (1994, Craig Fairbrass, Elizabeth Hurley, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3792

‘Psychological Terror Beyond Your Wildest Nightmares.’ Co-writer/director Vadim Jean’s 1994 British psychological murder thriller is an unappealing, far-fetched and slackly handled movie. In the story, based on the novel Bedlam by John Brosnan (writing as Harry Adam […]

May, 30

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