Derek Winnert

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Moon Zero Two *** (1969, James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri) – Classic Movie Review 10,713

Hammer Films studios abandon horror for director Roy Ward Baker’s brave and ambitious 1969 British sci-fi movie Moon Zero Two, a hybrid Western set in a future-world outer space on the Moon in the year 2021, […]

Dec, 27

Meteor ** (1979, Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 9750

Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]

May, 11

Riders to the Stars ** (1954, William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Dawn Addams, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 9557

‘SEE! men and equipment float in air, trapped where there is no gravity – no up or down!’ A scientist sends a three-man team into space to retrieve an asteroid, in this entertainingly bizarre, ‘realistic’ […]

Mar, 24

Conquest of Space *** (1954, Eric Fleming, Walter Brooke, Mickey Shaughnessy, William Hopper, Ross Martin, William Redfield) – Classic Movie Review 2573

Director Byron Haskin’s painstaking and realistic 1954 documentary-style sci-fi film comes from the illustrious stable of fantasy producer George Pal. It motors on an interesting screenplay by James O’Hanlon, derived from Willy Ley’s 1949 classic The […]

Jun, 08

Armageddon *** (1998, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1098

In a plot very similar to the simultaneously made Deep Impact, oil-riggers Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and co are recruited to head for space to drill a hole and place a bomb to explode a […]

Apr, 15

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