Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "monster"

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The Angry Red Planet ** (1959, Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 7593

So then, once again, Mars attacks! Earthlings get more than they bargain for when they are chased by angry plants after they land on Mars to explore. Director Ib Melchior’s 1959 sci-fi adventure monster movie The […]

Sep, 18

The Secret of Marrowbone ** (2018, George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg, Nicola Harrison, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review

George MacKay stars in The Secret of Marrowbone (2018) as a young English man called Jack who lives in an ancient American manor house with his three younger siblings (Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg), who […]

Jul, 15

Pacific Rim: Uprising * (2018, John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny) – Movie Review

Five years on from Pacific Rim (2013), they have ditched all the things that made the first film pretty good, including the stars and the director, and have replaced them with moderate or mediocre stuff. Pacific Rim: […]

Mar, 23

Monster Hunt 2 [Zhuo yao ji 2] ** (2018, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing) – Movie Review

Director Raman Hui’s fantasy movie sequel is good natured enough and fun up to a point, with game performances and a good, costly looking production, with lovely and lavish art direction. But Monster Hunt 2 is […]

Feb, 24

At the Earth’s Core *** (1976, Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Keith Barron) – Classic Movie Review 6590

Director Kevin Connor’s popular 1976 sci-fi fantasy adventure At the Earth’s Core is the follow-up to his hit The Land That Time Forgot (1974), with the same star, Doug McClure, in a different role. At the Earth’s […]

Jan, 22

Monster on the Campus *** (1958, Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Whit Bissell, Joanna Moore, Troy Donahue, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters) – Classic Movie Review 6270

This 1958 horror sci-fi shocker from director Jack Arnold, the maker of the 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, cannot perhaps attain the same excellent high standard of that one. But, even so, it is […]

Nov, 19

Jigsaw * (2017, Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson, Clé Bennett) – Movie Review

Eleanor Bonneville: ‘It’s Jigsaw.’ Logan Nelson: ‘Jigsaw’s dead.’ Eleanor Bonneville: ‘Is he?’ The Spierig Brothers’ tediously gruesome and grisly reboot of the Saw franchise is as disgusting and revolting as it is stale and pointless. […]

Oct, 28

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