Derek Winnert

Lost in Space *** (1998, Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham, Mimi Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 3700

The fondly remembered Irwin Allen 1965-68 family sci-fi TV series lives again in director Stephen Hopkins’s daft but likeable mega-budget ($90million) 1998 big-screen re-creation. A cast of actors rather than stars take the parts of the […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

A Hologram for the King **½ (2016, Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Ben Whishaw) – Movie Review

You’ve got to hand it to Mr Nice Guy Tom Hanks, he hasn’t given up on Tom Tykwer, the director of his 2012 box-office loser Cloud Atlas. (It cost $102million and earned back only $27million in the US.) […]

May, 11 · in Reviews

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot *** (2016, Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman) – Movie Review

Tina Fey throws everything she knows into a big serious star role in which she plays the feisty, workaholic real-life American journalist Kim Barker in an entertaining movie that recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan when she’s […]

May, 11

Angry Birds *** (2016, voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride) – Movie Review

Jason Sudeikis voices Red, a bird with a bad temper problem, who is sent to an anger management class after shoving the pie he’s supposed to be delivering to a birthday party in someone’s face. Yep, […]

May, 11

Blood of Dracula [Blood Is My Heritage] * (1957, Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley) – Classic Movie Review 3.699

Sandra Harrison stars as a schoolgirl who turns into a vampire under hypnosis, in Herbert L Strock’s 1957 horror movie Blood of Dracula. ‘She Will GIVE YOU Nightmares… FOR EVER!’ Director Herbert L Strock’s 1957 […]

May, 11

I Was a Teenage Werewolf *** (1957, Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime) – Classic Movie Review 3,698

The cult 1957 sci-fi horror movie I Was a Teenage Werewolf is infamous as the film that started the Fifties teen horror cycle. Michael Landon plays a crazy, mixed-up teenager called Tony Rivers. The cult […]

May, 11

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein ** (Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton, Gary Conway) – Classic Movie Review 3697

Whit Bissell returns as a different character in director Herbert L Strock’s pretty dreadful 1958 follow-up to I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), with the acting, writing and direction all over the place. This American International Pictures […]

May, 11

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