Derek Winnert

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Invaders from Mars ** (1986, Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher, Bud Cort, Jimmy Hunt, Laraine Newman, James Karen) – Classic Movie Review 5996

Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite Invaders from Mars is remade by director Tobe Hooper in 1986 for Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s British Cannon studios, with Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy […]

Aug, 29

Lifeforce *** (1985, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Michael Gothard) – Classic Movie Review 5984

Director Tobe Hooper’s 1985 British movie tribute to Hammer Films is an entertainingly gory, tongue-in-cheek vampire movie set in London and starring Peter Firth and Frank Finlay. In Dan O’Bannon and Don Jacoby’s screenplay, based […]

Aug, 28

Terror of Mechagodzilla [Mekagojira no gyakushu] ** (1975, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata) – Classic Movie Review 5982

‘The mighty titan of terror in his most incredible adventure,’ screamed Toho studios to advertise director Ishirô Honda’s 1975 Japanese horror movie, the 15th in the Gojira/ Godzilla series, which by then already had been […]

Aug, 28

Alien: Covenant **** (2017, Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride) – Movie Review

Oh there’s a signal from a weird planet, let’s respond to it! Oh, heck, it’s an alien, let’s shoot it with old-fashioned guns. Oh, hell, it’s after us, let’s run. Thank God, we’re back on […]

May, 09

Robinson Crusoe on Mars ***½ (1964, Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West) – Classic Movie Review 5416

A daft exploitation movie title hides director Byron Haskin’s imaginative, intelligent and involving 1964 Sci-Fi version of Daniel Defoe’s classic tale with Paul Mantee as Commander Kit Draper, a US astronaut whose craft is afflicted […]

May, 07

Godzilla vs Gigan * (1972, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima) – Classic Movie Review 5391

Godzilla [Gojira], the dinosaur with radio-active breath, pals up with spiky-backed giant Angorus [Anguirus] to save trembling Earthlings from a devilish duo of space monster invaders – metallic bird Gigan [Gaigan] and King Ghidrah, the […]

May, 04

Dark Star **** (1974, Brian Narelle, Andrew Dre Pahich, Cal Kuniholm, Dan O’Bannon) – Classic Movie Review 5367

Co-writer/ co-producer/ scorer/ director John Carpenter’s low-budget ($60,000) 1974 feature film début is a rollicking, anarchic trip into space that merrily debunks a host of other space movies, notably 2001: A Space Odyssey, and paves […]

Apr, 29

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