Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Prometheus **** (2012, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall) – Classic Movie Review 4,813

Ridley Scott’s tense and scary Alien universe prequel film Prometheus, in which a team journey to a distant moon and find a structure with a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and stone cylinders of […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

Passengers *** (2016, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne) – Movie Review

Chris Pratt stars as Jim Preston, a space engineer travelling on a 120-year voyage to the distant planet of Homestead Colony on the Starship Avalon, when there is a malfunction and his hibernation pod opens prematurely 90 […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

Watership Down **** (1978, voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 4812

Producer-writer-director Martin Rosen’s 1978 British animated feature based on Richard Adams’s beloved bestselling children’s book about a tribe of rabbits seeking a new home that is somewhere safe for them to live is an exquisitely […]

Dec, 28

Nicholas and Alexandra **** (1971, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Lynne Frederick, Fiona Fullerton, Harry Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Tom Baker, Michael Redgrave, Irene Worth, Jack Hawkins, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 4,811

Tsars in their eyes Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman grab their chances to shine as the Russian royal pair Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra in Franklin J Schaffner’s sumptuous double Oscar-winning 1971 film […]

Dec, 27

The Cell ** (2000, Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 4810

Director Tarsem Singh’s 2000 thriller stars Vince Vaughn as FBI agent Peter Novak, who tries to save a girl whom a sick serial killer (Vincent D’Onofrio) has trapped in a water-tank cell somewhere, with the […]

Dec, 23

Scrooge *** (1935, Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Athene Seyler, Oscar Asche, Barbara Everest, Maurice Evans, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Marie Ney, C V France) – Classic Movie Review 4,809

Seymour Hicks co-writes the screenplay and plays the old Victorian grouch Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1935 British film version of Charles Dickens’s beloved novel A Christmas Carol. British actor-manager Seymour Hicks co-writes the screenplay and […]

Dec, 23

Captain Horatio Hornblower RN *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Terence Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 4808

Gregory Peck stands steady in a tense and taciturn star turn as the fictional early 19th century British Navy hero Captain Horatio Hornblower at the helm of producer-director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 ocean-going story based on C […]

Dec, 23

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