Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "survival"

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Those Who Wish Me Dead * (2021, Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen, Jon Bernthal) – Movie Review

[Spoiler alert] Director Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) is a perplexingly poor action thriller with Angelina Jolie under-employed and under-engaged as troubled fire-fighter Hannah, who befriends a 14-year-old boy called Connor (Finn […]

May, 17

Bengazi * (1955, Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson, Richard Erdman, Mala Powers, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 10,659

‘They Holed Up In Hell!’ Director John Brahm’s 1955 adventure Bengazi is low-budget adventure crime drama malarkey, based on a story by Jeff Bailey, in which a murky international trio (Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen and Richard […]

Dec, 12

Day of the Animals ** (1977, Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George) – Classic Movie Review 8305

Aerosols have damaged the ozone layer and turned animals above the altitude of 5000 feet into man-killers preying on High Sierra hikers, in director William Girdler’s rather horrible 1977 action horror thriller shocker Day of […]

Mar, 28

Sands of the Kalahari *** (1965, Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Harry Andrews, Susannah York, Theodore Bikel, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7844

Stanley Baker reunites with his Zulu writer-director Cy Endfield for this enjoyable enough, if samey, 1965 adventure yarn Sands of the Kalahari. It was old fashioned in 1965 when the movie scene had changed so much, […]

Nov, 27

Leviathan *** (1989, Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Meg Foster, Ernie Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 7649

Director George Pan Cosmatos’s 1989 sci-fi horror thriller Leviathan stars Peter RoboCop Weller as Steven Beck, the leader of a deep-sea mining crew from Florida who stumble across a sunken Russian vessel used in a disastrous experiment in […]

Oct, 09

Arctic ***½ (2018, Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir) – Movie Review

Mads Mikkelsen stars in co-writer/ director Joe Penna’s 2018 survival thriller Arctic as Overgård, an incredibly strong, brave and resourceful man who desperately tries to survive the Arctic after a plane crash. [Spoiler alert] His his long-awaited […]

Sep, 27

Adrift *** (2018, Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Grace Palmer) – Movie Review

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s real-life survival story Adrift is gripping, powerful and disturbing, and scarily realistic, propelled with two attractive star performances by Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin as avid sailors Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp […]

Jun, 27

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