Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "written by director"

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These Final Hours ** (2013, Nathan Phillips, Jessica De Gouw, David Field, Angourie Rice) – Movie Review

Writer-director Zak Hilditch’s enterprising Aussie thriller takes place on the last day on Earth, starting just 12 hours before a cataclysmic event will end life as we know it. It seems like a meteor has collided with Earth in […]

Apr, 29

The Benefactor **½ (2015, Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning, Theo James) – Movie Review

Richard Gere looks as old as Methusalah as Franny, an eccentric, dope-smoking, stinking rich philanthropist who meddles in the lives of a newly-married young couple in an attempt to relive his past. Dakota Fanning and Theo […]

Feb, 24

No Escape *** (2015, Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director John Erick Dowdle’s No Escape is an ultra-tense, exciting white-knuckle ride. Owen Wilson is great in a straight role as the distraught, demented dad determined not to die. Owen Wilson and Lake Bell star […]

Aug, 28

We Are Your Friends *** (2015, Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer, Jonny Weston, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski) – Movie Review

Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer and a brutalist shaven-headed Jonny Weston star as a quartet of 23-year-old drifters in a poor area of Hollywood (there’s a poor area of Hollywood?) who are still trying to […]

Aug, 26

The Dance of Reality [La Danza de la realidad] **** (2013, Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits) – Movie Review

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s provocative Amarcord-style portrait of the artist film director as a young man is quite an eyeful and a total bonkers head-banger. It’s either a work of genius or awful, or both. Maybe it’s […]

Aug, 20

Escobar – Paradise Lost ***½ (2015, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac) – Movie Review

Josh Hutcherson stars as a young Canadian surfer who goes to live on the paradise beach in Colombia with his brother (Brady Corbet), and meets Maria (Claudia Traisac), the woman of his dreams. But then heaven turns into […]

Aug, 20

Ted 2 **** (2015, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Morgan Freeman, voice of Seth MacFarlane) – Movie Review

With the help of some seamless CGI, talking bear Ted (voice of Seth MacFarlane) marries Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) but after a year they’re rowing badly. Ted’s lifetime best pal John (Mark Wahlberg) agrees he needs to have a […]

Jul, 03

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