Derek Winnert

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Invaders from Mars **** (1953, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 2371

Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite stars Jimmy Hunt as David MacLean, a small-town American kid who sees a flying saucer land in the marsh outside his house. But, of course, nobody […]

Apr, 08

Men in Black **** (1997, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Linda Fiorentino) – Classic Movie Review 631

Barry Sonnenfeld’s witty, sassy and funny 1997 sci-fi fantasy comedy Men in Black proves just the right stuff for kings of cool Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones plus canny director Sonnenfeld, who goes at […]

Jan, 05

Thunderball **** (1965, Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 410

Eon Productions’ 1965 fourth James Bond movie Thunderball is excellent vintage escapist adventure entertainment, smoothly and excitingly done, though arguably not quite as brilliant as Goldfinger and From Russia with Love. It is hugely enlivened […]

Nov, 16

Mars Attacks! **** (1996, Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lukas Haas, Sylvia Sidney, Glenn Close, Natalie Portman, Rod Steiger, Martin Short, Tom Jones, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito, Michael J Fox, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Lisa Marie) – Classic Movie Review 168

‘Nice planet. We’ll take it!’ A flying saucer buzzes round the Warner Brothers logo, the US President announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth, but the bug-eyed guys claim ‘We come in peace!’ Phew, that’s […]

Aug, 17

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