Derek Winnert

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All Is Lost **** (2013, Robert Redford) – Movie Review

The 77-year-old Robert Redford is excellent under what look like gruelling filming conditions as an unnamed solo sailor, who wakes to find his 39ft yacht taking on water after a collision with a rogue shipping […]

Nov, 29

Apocalypse Now ***** (1979, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Frederic Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 344

Apocalypse Now – and Forever! Co-writer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s incredibly ambitious, wildly extravagant ($31 million) epic brilliantly reworks Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as an examination of the absurdities and madness of the […]

Oct, 31

The African Queen ***** (1951, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull) – Classic Movie Review 327

Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn lighting electric sparks off each other on screen together is the main attraction of the enchanting 1951 British-American romantic adventure drama movie The African Queen. Along with their stupendous star […]

Oct, 26

Mister John *** (2013, Aidan Gillen, Zoe Tay, Molly Rose Lawlor) – Movie Review

An elusive tale of a man in an identity crisis and an existential stupor. Any way you look at it, that’s a real hard one to sell. Aidan Gillen stars as Irishman Gerry Devine, who leaves his unfaithful […]

Sep, 29

Mud **** (2012, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Withersoon, Tye Sheridan, Sam Shepard, Joe Don Baker) – Movie Review

The Matthew McConaughey renaissance continues with this, quite probably his best ever performance, as a spectacularly grungy-looking fugitive hiding away alone on a Mississippi isolated island after killing the husband who was abusing his lover. […]

May, 26

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