Derek Winnert

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Transformers: Age of Extinction *** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, T J Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer) – Movie Review

Transformers 4 is an awesome but soul-less juggernaut of a stonking, barn-storming action thriller, cruelly dumping the nice original cast after 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, and instead randomly employing today’s favourite action star Mark Wahlberg as widowed […]

Jul, 10

The Abyss **** (1989, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 1293

Writer-director James Cameron’s expensive 1989 sci-fi thriller was a very rare box-office flop for him, taking only $90million worldwide. It’s hard to know quite what went wrong. It looks stunning and the trick work is […]

Jun, 05

The Host ** (2013, Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons, Jake Abel, Frances Fisher, William Hurt, Emily Browning) – Movie Review

Panned by critics and weak at the box office, The Host has a host of problems that start with the ponderous, poorly written screenplay and flat direction of Andrew Niccol, struggling to adapt Stephenie (Twilight) […]

Jun, 02

Edge of Tomorrow *** (2014, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt) – Movie Review

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt form a surprisingly effective tough-guy duo as two futuristic army soldier types defending the planet from aliens in director Doug Liman’s explosive, brainy blockbuster. Somehow, and please don’t ask me […]

May, 30

Contact **** (1997, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, David Morse, William Fichtner, James Woods, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 1108

‘Look, all I’m asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision.’ Co-producer/director Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film stars Jodie Foster, who plays Dr Ellie Arroway, a young, driven astronomer who receives humankind’s […]

Apr, 18

Nowhere **** (1997, James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Christina Applegate, Debi Mazar) – Classic Movie Review 1,041

Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere is zany alternative entertainment for cool entertainment folk. James Duval makes an engaging, lost hero as Dark Smith. Writer-director Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere […]

Apr, 02

Dreamcatcher **** (2003, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee) – Classic Movie Review 919

Writer-producer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 screen adaptation (with William Goldman) of the Stephen King novel is brilliantly ambitious and imaginative. Dreamcatcher cleverly combines all King’s usual themes and plotlines. It’s a buddy-buddy flick, paranormal chiller and […]

Mar, 16

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