Derek Winnert

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It Came from Outer Space **** (1953, Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake) – Classic Movie Review 2,443

Jack Arnold’s 1953 black-and-white sci-fi film It Came from Outer Space is notable as the first in 3D from Universal. Barbara Rush won a Golden Globe as most promising female newcomer. Director Jack Arnold’s 1953 […]

May, 02

Monsters: Dark Continent **½ (2014, Sam Keeley, Johnny Harris, Joe Dempsie, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review

The US Army sends in more men to deal with a new insurgency in the Middle East, where there is a proliferation of monsters. That setup and the ensuing plot are fair enough but this is […]

Apr, 29

Galaxy Quest **** (1999, Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 2395

Director Dean Parisot’s hilarious 1999 Star Trek spoof stars Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Tim Allen, who are at their most amusing as the cast of a cancelled cult space TV series who are required […]

Apr, 16

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

The Trollenberg Terror [The Crawling Eye] ** (1958, Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro, Jennifer Jayne, Warren Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,370

In 1956, British TV viewers thrilled to a serial called The Trollenberg Terror, in which a remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures who enjoy decapitating humans.  In 1956, British TV […]

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

The Blob *** (1958, Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe) – Classic Movie Review 2103

Director Irvin S Yeaworth Jnr’s 1958 B-movie horror flick stars Steve McQueen in his first leading role, billed as Steven McQueen. In this irresistible low-budget schlock, a gelatinous alien goo arrives on Earth via a meteorite and begins […]

Jan, 23

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