Derek Winnert

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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

Woman in the Moon [Frau im Mond] **** (1929, Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim, Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 3006

Director Fritz Lang’s last silent movie from 1929 is one of the first and most important sci-fi movies with its story of obsession about a half-mad greedy scientist, Professor Georg Manfeldt (Klaus Pohl), who finds that there […]

Oct, 23

Forbidden Planet ***** (1956, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 2555

Director Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a genre classic, haunting and beautiful looking, gaining an immense amount of other-worldly mood and atmosphere from being all artificially filmed in the […]

Jun, 04

This Island Earth **** (1955, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason) – Classic Movie Review 2,444

Director Joseph Newman’s 1955 movie This Island Earth is a memorable, huge fun Fifties sci-fi thriller with a sprightly yarn about benevolent aliens kidnapping earthling scientists to save their planet. The film is fondly remembered […]

May, 02

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

Jupiter Ascending ***½ (2015, Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Douglas Booth) – Movie Review

Mila Kunis enjoys the main role as Jupiter Jones, a Russian immigrant in Chicago, apparently destined in the stars for great things but actually currently with a job cleaning toilets. Life suddenly gets much worse and much […]

Feb, 04

Jason X ** (2001, Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, David Cronenberg) – Classic Movie Review 1814

Director James ‘Jim’ Isaac’s slick 2001 slasher horror movie sequel is Friday the 13th Part 10 in all but name. The useful new twist this time is that the story rockets into space. Kane Hodder plays horrendous maniac […]

Nov, 07

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