Derek Winnert

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 *** (2014, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field) – Movie Review

Andrew Garfield returns in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) as Peter Parker, who starts off late for his high-school graduation, with a good excuse about checking up on some stolen plutonium. But he’s just in […]

Apr, 17 · in Reviews

Deep Impact *** (1998, Elijah Wood, Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell, James Cromwell, Ron Eldard, Jon Favreau) – Classic Movie Review 1104

Director Mimi Leder’s feisty, old-style apocalyptic 1998 disaster movie stars Elijah Wood as a keen young amateur astrologer who spots an unidentified star, and soon it is all stations red alert as a massive comet […]

Apr, 17 · in Reviews

Locke **** (2013, Tom Hardy) – Movie Review

British screenwriter/director Steven Knight (in his second film after 2013’s Hummingbird, aka Redemption) provides a brilliant tour-de-force role for Tom Hardy as the sole star of a film entirely set inside a car on its journey from […]

Apr, 16

Paths of Glory ***** (1957, Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 1102

In 1957, director Stanley Kubrick confirmed his then growing reputation as one of the most promising film-makers of the era with this harsh, bleak and brilliant, fact-based World War One anti-war film about a French army mutiny […]

Apr, 16

Seabiscuit **** (2003, Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 1101

Co-producer/writer/director Gary Ross’s 2003 lovingly crafted real-life adventure story/ sports drama stars the 28-year-old Tobey Maguire. He rides to victory as Red, a young drifter given a second chance by millionaire Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) as his […]

Apr, 15

The Crow **** (1994, Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 1100

Director Alex Proyas’s stylish and inspired 1994 sci-fi thriller film The Crow tragically proved to be the last film of star Brandon Lee, killed in a weapons accident towards the end of filming. Proyas mocked […]

Apr, 15

Dark City **** (1997, Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 1099

Writer-director Alex Proyas’s extraordinary 1997 sci-fi chiller is a very pleasant surprise. Dark, intense and imaginative, this brilliant looking and exciting movie is excellently crafted by Proyas. Rufus Sewell stars as John Murdoch, who is […]

Apr, 15

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