Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "technology"

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Child’s Play *** (2019, Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, voice of Mark Hamill) – Movie Review

The original 30-year old franchise got up to Child’s Play 7, and now it’s back and just as dodgy and nasty as ever. Norwegian director Lars Klevberg makes the 2019 horror movie Child’s Play very […]

Jun, 21

Brainstorm *** (1983, Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 6088

Producer-director Douglas Trumbull’s 1983 sci-fi thriller hokum Brainstorm about a devastating device that records emotions to transmit them to other people is fairly engaging. Christopher Walken and Louise Fletcher steal the film as the brilliant […]

Oct, 13

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court *** (1949, Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Wilcoxon, Murvyn Vye, Virginia Field) – Classic Movie Review 5941

Bing Crosby is quite the homespun charmer and certainly a wizard with the catchy songs, particularly the classic ‘Busy Doing Nothing’, in the 1949 American Technicolor comedy musical film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. […]

Aug, 20

Steve Jobs **** (2015, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Danny Boyle‘s 2015 movie casts Michael Fassbender as the architect of the digital revolution, Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple inc. Let’s be clear, this isn’t a biopic of Jobs. Instead it paints a […]

Nov, 11

Work is a Four-Letter Word * (1968, David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin, Alan Howard, David Waller) – Classic Movie Review 2783

Henry Livings’s award-winning absurdist play Eh? about giant magic mushrooms gets a livelier title and the then Sixties pop princess Cilla Black, plus a classy star in David Warner, posh theatre director in Peter Hall and […]

Aug, 05

Koyaanisqatsi ***** (1982, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 2750

Director Godfrey Reggio points his time-lapse cameras at America in the breath-taking 1982 documentary Koyaanisqatsi that stuns the eye and brain, and provides a totally hypnotic experience. Reggio comes up with an apparently endless sequence […]

Jul, 29

Transcendence ** (2014, Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Cillian Murphy, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cole Hauser, Morgan Freeman, Clifton Collins Jr) – Movie Review

Johnny Depp stars as Berkeley genius scientist Dr Will Caster who is on the verge of creating an omniscient, sentient A.I. machine. But a rogue anti-technology terrorist group fights to stop him and they put him […]

Apr, 24

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