Derek Winnert

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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

First Men in the Moon ** (1964, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 9503

Director Nathan Juran’s 1964 sci-fi adventure yarn First Men in the Moon, taken from a story by H G Wells, is aimed to please eager teenagers, though it has some appeal to dads too. A […]

Mar, 13

Ad Astra ** (2019, Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland) – Movie Review

Ad Astra (2019) is a posh, great-looking space movie, with ambitions, but it is also slow and boring, and, in the end, much ado about nothing. It manages to pull off the rare trick of […]

Sep, 25

Marooned ** (1969, Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak, Mariette Hartley) – Classic Movie Review 8587

Director John Sturges’s well-crafted but slow and sombre 1969 Sci-Fi space adventure Marooned finds a fine cast headed by Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak and Mariette […]

Jun, 13

The Crawling Hand * (1963, Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Alan Hale Jr, Allison Hayes, Tristram Coffin) – Movie Review 8584

Director Herbert L Strock’s 1963 poverty row film The Crawling Hand is a stinker. The low budget of $100,000 does it in. A space capsule is detonated in orbit and the astronaut inside blown up. […]

Jun, 12

The Incredible Melting Man ** (1977, Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 8578

Writer-director William Sachs’s amusingly silly and entertainingly horrible 1977 drive-in sci-fi-horror movie The Incredible Melting Man stars Alex Rebar as infected spaceman Steve West (aka The Incredible Melting Man of course), whose flesh melts incredibly […]

Jun, 10

Countdown *** (1967, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8569

Director Robert Altman concentrates more on human emotions than the special effects in his 1967 sci-fi  thriller Countdown and the result is always fascinating if a little earnest and uncommercial, though that isn’t necessarily a […]

Jun, 09

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