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

The Crater Lake Monster * (1977, Richard Cardella, Glen Roberts, Mark Siegel) – Classic Movie Review 8598

Director William R Stromberg’s hopelessly inept 1977 horror fantasy movie The Crater Lake Monster lacks in thrills, chills and terror and scores only for unintentional laughs, wooden performances and an OK animated dinosaur monster (stop […]

Jun, 16

The Day of the Triffids *** (1963, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7516

Director Steve Sekely’s 1962 British horror movie The Day of the Triffids is a disappointing but still fun and endearing version of John Wyndham’s extremely fine classic chiller novel about the meteor showers that blind […]

Aug, 30

The Monolith Monsters *** (1957, Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 5199

Ah yes, ‘Mammoth skyscrapers of stone thundering across the Earth!’ Director John Sherwood’s 1957 movie is an atmospheric, effective enough sci-fi film, in which the residents of a California desert town start dying after scientist […]

Mar, 25

These Final Hours ** (2013, Nathan Phillips, Jessica De Gouw, David Field, Angourie Rice) – Movie Review

Writer-director Zak Hilditch’s enterprising Aussie thriller takes place on the last day on Earth, starting just 12 hours before a cataclysmic event will end life as we know it. It seems like a meteor has collided with Earth in […]

Apr, 29

Quatermass 2 [Enemy from Space] *** (1957, Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 3165

American star Brian Donlevy is back to reprise his sombre performance as the troubled rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass in the second in Hammer Films’ trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC serials. This […]

Dec, 17

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