Derek Winnert

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The Second Arrival * (1998, Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin) – Classic Movie Review 10,592

‘Stop Watching The Skies… Start Watching Your Back. The Secret Is Out.’ Director Kevin Tenney’s 1998 Canadian sci-fi thriller Arrival II [The Second Arrival] is the dreary, plodding and unimaginative sequel to The Arrival (1996), […]

Nov, 27

The Brother from Another Planet *** (1984, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter) – Classic Movie Review 10,396

Writer-director John Sayles’s entertaining, satirical 1984 sci-fi comedy The Brother from Another Planet is about a mute alien extra-terrestrial brother (Joe Morton) from another planet who arrives in Harlem, where he impresses the community and […]

Oct, 09

Cocoon: The Return ** (1988, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 10,201

Director Daniel Petrie’s 1988 senior citizen sci-fi sequel Cocoon: The Return sees the welcome return of the spaced-out Florida wrinklies, with more or less everybody (the entire main cast) returning from the original, but not […]

Aug, 20

The Big Noise *** (1944, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Jack Norton, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 10,122

Director Malcolm St Clair’s 1944 comedy The Big Noise is a still smile-worthy if relatively feeble, padded-out late-period movie from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in which the Boys are detective agency janitors who pretend […]

Aug, 02

DeepStar Six ** (1989, Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 9982

Director Sean S Cunningham’s 1989 underwater-monster fantasy thriller DeepStar Six is just about watchable for sci-fi buffs, but it is submerged by the lack of action, an unimaginative alien and the particularly silly climax. This […]

Jun, 30

Coneheads * (1993, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Chris Farley, David Spade) – Classic Movie Review 9694

Director Steve Barron’s 1993 sci-fi spoof Coneheads stars an impressive line-up in Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Laraine Newman, Phil Hartman, Dave Thomas, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Adam Sandler, Sinbad, Jan […]

Apr, 30

The Earth Dies Screaming ** (1964, Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 9242

Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 British sci-fi horror quickie The Earth Dies Screaming is cheap and cheerful. [Spoiler alert] Robots have turned most folk in England into zombies. Well we knew all this telly watching wouldn’t […]

Jan, 08

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