Derek Winnert

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Midnight Special ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jeff Nichols boldly goes at having a crack at something a bit different in this dark and brooding 2016 sci-fi chase thriller. It’s an oddball story in which a father Roy and his eight-year-old son Alton Meyer go […]

Apr, 07

10 Cloverfield Lane **** (2016, John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr) – Movie Review

I do love a horror movie that delivers. I’ve been looking for one for ages and ages – and, finally, this is it! None of your, oh that dripping water might be scary, those woods […]

Mar, 14

Monsters **** (2010, Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides) – Classic Movie Review 3312

Hooray for writer-director Gareth Edwards’s imaginative, stylish, thrilling and very well done 2010 sci-fi thriller, in which aliens have appeared on Earth and the authorities are trying to contain the creatures. The plot focuses on cynical US […]

Feb, 01

Village of the Damned ** (1995, Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Mark Hamill) – Classic Movie Review 3194

In a village in Marin County, everyone falls asleep and, when they wake up six hours later, ten women, including a virgin, are pregnant. Nine months after, there are ten lookalike babies all with white […]

Dec, 29

Quatermass and the Pit [Five Million Years to Earth] **** (1967, Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 3166

Director Roy Ward Baker 1967 sci-fi horror movie is the third and last of the Hammer Films’ versions of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass BBC television serials. It has London Underground excavators digging up a spaceship and […]

Dec, 18

The Quatermass Xperiment [The Creeping Unknown] *** (1955, Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 3164

The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer’s first venture into horror movies, and the first X-certificate movie from a British company. Director Val Guest’s 1955 first spin-off from Nigel Kneale’s BBC TV serials is a […]

Dec, 17

Devil Girl from Mars *** (1954, Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds, Adrienne Corri, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3,123

‘Invasion from Outer Space!… Sights too weird to imagine! Destruction too monstrous to escape!’ However, this is the exotic and amazing Patricia Laffan’s finest hour in the movies. ‘Invasion from Outer Space!… Sights too weird […]

Dec, 02

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