Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "space travel"

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Ad Astra ** (2019, Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland) – Movie Review

Ad Astra (2019) is a posh, great-looking space movie, with ambitions, but it is also slow and boring, and, in the end, much ado about nothing. It manages to pull off the rare trick of […]

Sep, 25

A Wrinkle in Time * (2018, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine) – Movie Review

Director Ava DuVernay’s Disney kids and early-teen movie for easily entertained girls is embarrassingly awful, with a shamelessly manipulative and sentimental screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based upon the novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It plays like a […]

Mar, 29

Dune **** (1984, Kyle MacLachlan, Kenneth McMillan, Francesca Annis, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Jack Nance, Sian Phillips, Sting, Patrick Stewart, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 4,143

David Lynch’s career unfairly took a nose-dive with the box-office failure of his spectacular, visually thrilling 1984 epic film of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune. Unfairly scorned, Lynch’s Dune is more of an exciting near-triumph […]

Aug, 08

The Right Stuff ***** (1983, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1852

Writer-director Philip Kaufman’s exhilarating, four Oscar-winning, three-hour-plus 1983 space epic is a movie with all the right stuff itself. There are two storylines. One is the début of America’s astronauts and the original Mercury 7 […]

Nov, 18

Interstellar *** (2014, Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine) – Movie Review

Sometime soon, the Earth is on the brink of extinction through drought, famine and extreme climate changes. But a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum gives humans a chance to widen their lifespan. Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway lead a group of explorers […]

Nov, 06

Things to Come **** (1936, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 905

In a future 1940, a 30-year-long global war and a black death plague destroys Everytown. Then in 1970, a band of scientists rebuild it into a great futuristic city. And by 2036, the first pair […]

Mar, 12

Gattaca **** (1997, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 226

It’s the near-distant future. Bookish hero Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) overcomes his physical frailties like his weak heart and poor eyesight by taking on the characteristics of a foreign superman Jerome Morrow (Jude Law) who’s […]

Sep, 06

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