Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "ocean"

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47 Meters Down ** (2017, Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine) – Movie Review

Mandy Moore and Claire Holt star as disillusioned American sisters vacationing in Mexico agree to join a couple of dodgy looking local blokes and a grizzled sea captain on an illegal cage dive to see […]

Aug, 01

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

Finding Dory **** (2016, voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill) – Movie Review

Pixar’s long-awaited sequel to its 2003 Finding Nemo plunges swimingly back into Nemo’s beautifully realised aquatic world with a delightful mix of the original favourite underwater characters and some delightful new characters, including octopus Hank (Ed O’Neill), […]

Jul, 26

Sphere *** (1998, Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 4050

Director Barry Levinson’s 1998 movie of the Michael Crichton novel is a thoughtful and intelligent deep-sea sci-fi saga, in which navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long – a spaceship – under 300 years’ worth of coral growth 1000 […]

Jul, 19

Lady in Cement *** (1968, Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan) – Classic Movie Review 3997

The enjoyable 1968 neo-noir mystery crime thriller film Lady in Cement stars Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, and Richard Conte. It’s a busy, cynical and raw private eye detective thriller with, for its day, […]

Jul, 11

Kon-Tiki **** (2012, Pål Sverre Hagen) – Movie Review

Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s riveting real-life sea-faring tale is excitingly told, with a couple of twists at the end, one of them the thrilling big finish. This is the manly story of legendary famous Norwegian […]

Dec, 18

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

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