Derek Winnert

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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

Warlords of Atlantis ** (1978, Doug McClure, Cyd Charisse, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer, Lea Brodie, Michael Gothard) – Classic Movie Review 6724

Director Kevin Connor’s 1978 British junior-league monster movie Warlords of Atlantis (aka Warlords of the Deep) stars the game if unlikely team of Doug McClure, Cyd Charisse and Peter Gilmore. In the screenplay by Brian […]

Feb, 23

Invaders from Mars ** (1986, Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher, Bud Cort, Jimmy Hunt, Laraine Newman, James Karen) – Classic Movie Review 5996

Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite Invaders from Mars is remade by director Tobe Hooper in 1986 for Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s British Cannon studios, with Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy […]

Aug, 29

Lifeforce *** (1985, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Michael Gothard) – Classic Movie Review 5984

Director Tobe Hooper’s 1985 British movie tribute to Hammer Films is an entertainingly gory, tongue-in-cheek vampire movie set in London and starring Peter Firth and Frank Finlay. In Dan O’Bannon and Don Jacoby’s screenplay, based […]

Aug, 28

Terror of Mechagodzilla [Mekagojira no gyakushu] ** (1975, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata) – Classic Movie Review 5982

‘The mighty titan of terror in his most incredible adventure,’ screamed Toho studios to advertise director Ishirô Honda’s 1975 Japanese horror movie, the 15th in the Gojira/ Godzilla series, which by then already had been […]

Aug, 28

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