Derek Winnert

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Cocoon: The Return ** (1988, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 10,201

Director Daniel Petrie’s 1988 senior citizen sci-fi sequel Cocoon: The Return sees the welcome return of the spaced-out Florida wrinklies, with more or less everybody (the entire main cast) returning from the original, but not […]

Aug, 20

First Men in the Moon ** (1964, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 9503

Director Nathan Juran’s 1964 sci-fi adventure yarn First Men in the Moon, taken from a story by H G Wells, is aimed to please eager teenagers, though it has some appeal to dads too. A […]

Mar, 13

Earth Girls Are Easy *** (1988, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey) – Classic Movie Review 9241

Director Julien Temple’s 1988 Earth Girls Are Easy stars Geena Davis as scatty Southern California manicurist Valerie Dale, who has a close encounter with three hairy extra-terrestrials who crash-land in her swimming pool, and in […]

Jan, 08

Battle Beyond the Stars *** (1980, Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon, George Peppard, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 8592

Director Jimmy T Murakami’s 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheeky and entertaining slice of sci-fi from executive producer Roger Corman and New World Pictures, cheerfully mixing The Magnificent Seven with Star Wars. […]

Jun, 14

The Man from Planet X **** (1951, Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 8234

The 1951 film The Man from Planet X is a surprisingly intelligent, imaginative and entertaining sci-fi horror movie adventure, shot in only a week (or six working days) by the globetrotting, prolific B-movie director Edgar […]

Mar, 12

From the Earth to the Moon * (1958, Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Henry Daniell, Carl Esmond, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7413

Director Byron Haskin’s 1958 From the Earth to the Moon is a pathetic attempt to film the Jules Verne sci-fi fantasy adventure novels De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune […]

Aug, 07

Escape from the Planet of the Apes *** (1971, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Sal Mineo, Eric Braeden) – Classic Movie Review 5751

Director Don Taylor’s 1971 Sci-Fi action thriller is the welcome part three in the original Ape saga, in which educated monkeys Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter) flee in a capsule from the holocaust of part […]

Jul, 13

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