Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "spaceship"

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space *** (1958, Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ray Corrigan) – Classic Movie Review 4923

Now where have you heard this before? A spacecraft is sent into space to discover what happened to the 10-man crew of the previous mission and returns to planet Earth with its sole survivor and […]

Jan, 23

Rogue One *** (2016, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Donnie Yen) – Movie Review

Lucasfilm’s competent and efficient but none too fascinating or inspired 2016 Star Wars spinoff plays like a spliced-together TV series with low-cost-looking sets and visual effects. It’s a shock to discover it cost $200,000,000. That money […]

Jan, 17

Passengers *** (2016, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne) – Movie Review

Chris Pratt stars as Jim Preston, a space engineer travelling on a 120-year voyage to the distant planet of Homestead Colony on the Starship Avalon, when there is a malfunction and his hibernation pod opens prematurely 90 […]

Dec, 28

Serenity **** (2005, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Summer Glau, Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk, Ron Glass) – Classic Movie Review 4329

With spirited acting, imaginative handling and a fresh and witty script that rejuvenates all the sc-fi adventure clichés, there is a full load of the liveliest entertainment value in writer-director Joss Whedon’s extremely jolly space […]

Sep, 09

Sphere *** (1998, Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 4050

Director Barry Levinson’s 1998 movie of the Michael Crichton novel is a thoughtful and intelligent deep-sea sci-fi saga, in which navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long – a spaceship – under 300 years’ worth of coral growth 1000 […]

Jul, 19

Ice Age: Collision Course ** (2016, Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Simon Pegg, Jessie J, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah) – Movie Review

In the fifth episode of the long-running franchise, Scrat (Chris Wedge)‘s pursuit of his elusive acorn has taken him outside Earth, and he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that threaten the planet. Manny the […]

Jul, 15

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

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