Derek Winnert

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The Andromeda Strain **** (1971, James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8589

Arthur Hill stars as concerned scientist Dr Stone, who sacrifices himself for humanity in director Robert Wise’s tense, suspenseful, intelligent and just plain excellent 1971 sci-fi adventure The Andromeda Strain, adapted by screen-writer Nelson Gidding from […]

Jun, 13

Bad Taste ** (1987, Terry Potter, Pete O’Herne, Craig Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8416

Debut director Peter Jackson’s 1987 New Zealand horror movie Bad Taste is junk food for the mind – no substance and too much ketchup, and it is so rare that it is still uncooked and […]

Apr, 30

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

The Beast with a Million Eyes ** (1955, Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent, Leonard Tarver, Chester Conklin) – Classic Movie Review 7727

An extra-terrestrial beast with, in fact, two eyes that looks like a coffee percolator (it also sees through animals in its power) descends on the American South-West desert and gets various farmyard creatures, a blackbird, […]

Oct, 30

The Angry Red Planet ** (1959, Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 7593

So then, once again, Mars attacks! Earthlings get more than they bargain for when they are chased by angry plants after they land on Mars to explore. Director Ib Melchior’s 1959 sci-fi adventure monster movie The […]

Sep, 18

They Live *** (1988, Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster) – Classic Movie Review 7032

The Earth has been taken over by aliens who look like us, and only construction worker drifter Nada (Roddy Piper) and a small band of humans equipped with special sunglasses can see them in our […]

May, 10

Pacific Rim: Uprising * (2018, John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny) – Movie Review

Five years on from Pacific Rim (2013), they have ditched all the things that made the first film pretty good, including the stars and the director, and have replaced them with moderate or mediocre stuff. Pacific Rim: […]

Mar, 23

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