Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Outer Space"

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Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956, Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw, Paul Carpenter, Jacqueline Curtis, Harry Fowler, Sydney Tafler) – Classic Movie Review 11,421

Writer/ producer/ director Cy Roth’s 1956 black-and-white independent sci-fi film Fire Maidens from Outer Space is a hysterically awful British no-budget space opera picture with a group of cosmonauts landing on Jupiter’s 13th Moon and finding […]

Jul, 24

Spaceways *** (1953, Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 11,089

‘The screen’s first story of SPACE ISLANDS in the sky! Space is a cold place to die!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1953 British black and white sci-fi thriller film Spaceways is a really odd little Hammer […]

Apr, 10

The Hidden II * (1993, Raphael Sbarge, Kate Hodge, Michael Welden, Jovin Montanaro) – Classic Movie Review 8999

Writer-director Seth Pinsker’s 1994 sequel The Hidden II comes without any of the original stars (Kyle MacLachlan, Claudia Christian, Michael Nouri, Ed O’Ross, Clarence Felder, Clu Gulager) from the 1987 The Hidden. So it is […]

Oct, 21

Ad Astra ** (2019, Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland) – Movie Review

Ad Astra (2019) is a posh, great-looking space movie, with ambitions, but it is also slow and boring, and, in the end, much ado about nothing. It manages to pull off the rare trick of […]

Sep, 25

Morons from Outer Space (1985, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Dinsdale Landen, James B Sikking) – Classic Movie Review 8828

Eighties TV’s normally funny men Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones write and star in director Mike Hodges’s moronic 1985 big-screen comedy space adventure Morons from Outer Space, which combines lowbrow British humour and daffy […]

Aug, 14

Marooned ** (1969, Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak, Mariette Hartley) – Classic Movie Review 8587

Director John Sturges’s well-crafted but slow and sombre 1969 Sci-Fi space adventure Marooned finds a fine cast headed by Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak and Mariette […]

Jun, 13
Man in the Moon ** (1960, Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Michael Hordern, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 8161

Man in the Moon ** (1960, Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Michael Hordern, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 8161

Director Basil Dearden’s silly 1960 British black and white satirical comedy Man in the Moon tackles the then topical subject of sending the first astronaut into space. It is occasionally amusing, but mostly it is […]

Feb, 21

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