Derek Winnert

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Jurassic Park III **** (2001, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, William H Macy, Téa Leoni) – Classic Movie Review 362

You’d think one close encounter with dinosaurs would have been enough for palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill). But here he is in 2001, eight years on from part one, again stranded on a dinosaur […]

Nov, 04

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 *** (2013, voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Will Forte, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Kristen Schaal, Terry Crews) – Movie Review

Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader), his dad Tim (James Caan), spunky meteorologist Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Steve the Monkey (Neil Patrick Harris) are back in directors Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn’s modest but good-natured 2013 […]

Oct, 25

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

King Kong ***** (1933, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher) – Classic Movie Review 245

Producer-directors Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack’s all-time great fantasy adventure, horror movie and love story is a brilliantly stirring entertainment and an unchallenged masterpiece. A monstrously marvellous monster movie, this original 1933 version […]

Sep, 18

Dr No ***** (1962, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Anthony Dawson, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Eunice Gayson, Zena Marshall, Jack Lord) – Classic Movie Review 208

British Secret Service agent 007 makes his epoch-making debut in Dr No in 1962. A fresh-faced, youngish-looking, lean and lithe Sean Connery (aged 32) makes his spy début confidently and charismatically in the role he will always […]

Aug, 31

Jurassic Park ***** (1993, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough) – Classic Movie Review 178

Steven Spielberg gathers up the plot, characters, situations and themes of the famous, thoughtful novel by Michael Crichton and turns them into a great, old-style horror adventure with great new-style special effects. Broadening the appeal of the […]

Aug, 20

Blood ** (2012, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Brian Cox, Mark Strong) – Movie Review

We’re in the north of England, at a gloomy, rundown coastal town. Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham are brother cops, sons of the legendary but now semi-senile retired police boss Brian Cox. Their buddy in […]

May, 26

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