Derek Winnert

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Anaconda ** (1997, Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz , Owen Wilson, Ice Cube, Danny Trejo, Jonathan Hyde) – So Bad It’s Good Movie Review 10

Director Luis Llosa’s 1997 monster-movie thriller Anaconda is sublimely ridiculous, with the big Anaconda snake threatening an Amazon film-doc expedition. It may have a few likeable down-on-their-luck stars in in it, but it’s risible rock-bottom […]

Mar, 27

George of the Jungle *** (1997, Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church) – Classic Movie Review 888

Director Sam Weisman’s 1997 Disney comedy finally turned Brendan Fraser into a bankable star, playing a boy who survives an aircraft accident as a baby and is brought up by a monkey, swinging into trees […]

Mar, 09

Peter Pan **** (2003, Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Richard Briers, Ludivine Sagnier, Lynn Redgrave, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 789

Director P J Hogan’s 2003 movie Peter Pan is an excellent, often exhilarating live-action version of Sir James M Barrie’s story about Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter), the boy who flies to Never Never Land with […]

Feb, 02

Predator ***** (1987, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 561

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 sci-fi action thriller film Predator has a masterly build-up and then explodes half way with a nerve-shredding all-out attack that lasts the entire rest of the movie. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Rambo-versus-the-monster sci-fi fantasy […]

Dec, 22

The Thin Red Line ***** (1998, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 478

An absolutely stonking, gut-wrenching and astounding poetic war movie masterpiece from legendary writer-director Terrence Malick, this was only his third film in three decades. Based on the autobiographical 1962 novel by James Jones (From Here […]

Dec, 07

King Kong ***** (2005, Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis, Jamie Bell) – Classic Movie Review 412

Fresh from Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson had the chance to pay homage to the 1933 King Kong classic monster movie that he had adored all his life, and gleefully grabbed it with this loving […]

Nov, 16

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

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