Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Octavia Spencer"

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Insurgent *** (2015, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney, Miles Teller, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Tough as nails but desperately troubled, Shailene Woodley is back as the Divergent (2014) heroine Tris in a future that separates people into factions – Abnegation for selflessness, Amity for the peaceful, Candour for the honest, […]

Mar, 19

Get On Up *** (2014, Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd) – Movie Revie

After directing The Help (2011), Tate Taylor helms this conscientious and smoothly made, if uninspired, movie about James Brown. It painstakingly chronicles the Godfather of Soul‘s rise from poverty and parental abuse and abandonment in a turbulent […]

Nov, 18

Coach Carter *** (2005, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1563

Director Thomas Carter’s 2005 sports drama stars Samuel L Jackson, who brings a lot of fire and passion to this rather clichéd and over-familiar real-life story of Ken Carter, a controversial basketball coach of the […]

Aug, 17

Fruitvale Station **** (2013, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz) – Movie Review

Writer-director Ryan Coogler tells the true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old African American California Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. It ends […]

Jun, 05

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