Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Brain from Planet Arous **½ (1957, John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 4347

Nathan Juran’s so-terrible-it’s-fun movie The Brain from Planet Arous is bizarrely amusing virtually throughout, with acting and effects to match. It has survived years of terrible reviews to become a cult classic. It is silly […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

Attack of the Puppet People ** (1958, John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney) – Classic Movie Review 4346

John Hoyt stars in story-writer/ director Bert I Gordon’s 1958 American International Pictures Sci-Fi movie with the familiar old tale about a mad, lonely scientist dollmaker called Mr Franz (Hoyt) who indulges himself with the terrible […]

Sep, 11 · in Uncategorized

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman *** (1958, Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers) – Classic Movie Review 4345

Allison Hayes stars as beautiful, rich, bikini-clad socialite Nancy Archer who closely encounters a bald-headed, transparent alien, who turns her into a giantess. This turns out to be a mixed blessing. This tall story is a case […]

Sep, 11

Monsters vs Aliens *** (2009, voices Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Paul Rudd, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Ed Helms) – Classic Movie Review 4344

DreamWorks’ 2009 animation is pretty well done and very jolly if not their finest – and it’s certainly not in the Monsters, Inc. gallery of greatness. Pixar’s pioneering 2001 work is still superior. There are plenty […]

Sep, 11

Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343

Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]

Sep, 11

Last Chance Harvey ***½ (2008, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Richard Schiff, Liane Balaban) – Classic Movie Review 4342

Golden Globe nominations for stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson show their huge appeal in writer-director Joel Hopkins’s entertaining London-based 2008 romcom. Hoffman plays older American advert jingle-writer Harvey Shine, who is over here in […]

Sep, 11

Deception * (2008, Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman, Andrew Ginsburg) – Classic Movie Review 4341

Nerdy New York accountant Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) meets slick lawyer Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), who draws him an into the twilight world of an elite Manhattan dating club, where high fliers meet for no-strings […]

Sep, 11

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