Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "James Franco"

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City by the Sea ** (2002, Robert De Niro, James Franco, Frances McDormand) – Classic Movie Review 1430

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s 2002 character-driven thriller is interesting and sometimes involving, but often surprisingly shaky. Ken Hixon writes the slightly struggling screenplay from an article, Mark of a Murderer by Mike McAlary. Well it’s more […]

Jul, 15

Spider-Man 3 **** (2007, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons, James Cromwell) – Classic Movie Review 1106

The final film in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy cost a whopping $258million and was the most expensive film of all time at release but it became the most financially successful film in the series worldwide. […]

Apr, 18

Veronica Mars ** (2014, Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Jamie Lee Curtis, Percy Daggs III, Gaby Hoffmann, Ryan Hansen, Jerry O’Connell, James Franco) – Movie Review

Here’s a bit of an oddball curio. A US telly show from 2004-2007 that no one here in the UK seems to have heard of gets a belated big-screen spinoff thanks to Kickstarter, which raised […]

Mar, 14

Spider-Man **** (2002, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons, Bill Nunn) – Classic Film Review 582

You’ll believe a boy can spin a web and crawl a wall in Spider-Man, as the last great comic book hero finally gets a film of his own in 2002 thanks to the surges in […]

Dec, 28

Spider-Man 2 ***** (2004, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 581

Can they spin another great yarn? Yep, they sure can! Director Sam Raimi’s 2004 sensational sequel Spider-Man 2, picking up where the 2002 blockbuster Spider-Man left off, is, if anything, even more awesome than the […]

Dec, 28

Pineapple Express **** (2008, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Connie Sawyer) – Classic Movie Review 579

Seth Rogen and James Franco are hilarious as a roly-poly process server and slacker pothead called Dale Denton and his amiable, stoned-out marijuana dealer Saul Silver, who sells him a rare new strain of weed […]

Dec, 27

Homefront *** (2013, Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder) – Movie Review

Jason Statham stars as former DEA drug enforcement agent, Phil Broker, who, after the death of his wife, moves with his daughter to a quiet, seemingly tranquil backwoods bayou town. His hopes for a quieter […]

Nov, 21

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