Derek Winnert

Captain Phillips **** (2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review

Tom Hanks finds a perfect part as the real-life Captain Richard Phillips, a canny and experienced American seaman, who is sent to command the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama, in 2009. He has to steer […]

Oct, 09 · in Uncategorized

Die Hard ***** (1988, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta) – Classic Movie Review 281

‘Yippie-ki-yay!’ The 1988 blockbuster hit Die Hard is sometimes named as the greatest action thriller of all time. An amazingly fit and fine Bruce Willis eagerly grabs his role of a lifetime as John McClane. The […]

Oct, 09 · in Reviews

A Good Day to Die Hard ** (2013, Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch) – Movie Review

Yippee ky-nothing. The fifth instalment of the Die Hard franchise is a bit of a dud but it does get a lift from an epic car chase across Moscow and your residual sympathy for its […]

Oct, 09

Dead Man Down *** (2013, Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, Isabelle Huppert, Terrence Howard) – Movie Review

The star and director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reunite for this efficient and competent 2013 gangland revenge thriller that delivers good genre thrills with a smart arty overlay without reaching any great […]

Oct, 09

Cloud Atlas­ ***½ (2012, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Sturgess) – Movie Review

‘Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others.’ Some big guns come out firing on as many cylinders as they know how to access in order to turn […]

Oct, 09

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

Saboteur ****½ (1942, Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 279

Alfred Hitchcock’s thrilling 1942 World War Two pursuit thriller Saboteur is a fast, fine and stylish exercise in excitement and high anxiety. Robert Cummings stars as innocent LA aircraft munitions factory worker Barry Kane, who […]

Oct, 08

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