Derek Winnert

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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women * (1968, Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4859

Following Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), the ever enterprising producer Roger Corman squeezed a second sci-fi movie out of cannibalising the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur. The 1968 American science fiction film Voyage to […]

Jan, 08

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet ** (1965, Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, John Bix) – Classic Movie Review 4858

In what Alex Cox called ‘an act of cinematic cannibalism’, producer Roger Corman’s 1965 sci-fi movie is one of two he adapted from the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur (Planet of the Storms), scripted by Aleksandr Kazantsev […]

Jan, 08

Robot & Frank **** (2012, Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 4790

Frank Langella is lovely as an old man whose son gives him a robot programmed to take care of him. Then the one-time catburglar jewel thief and his new robot butler caretaker (voice of Peter […]

Dec, 17

THX 1138 ***½ (1971, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie) – Classic Movie Review 4740

Set in a George Orwell-style computer-controlled tomorrow of the 25th century, when people are known by letters and numbers and a man and a woman rebel against the rigidly controlled society, co-writer/ director George Lucas’s […]

Dec, 02

Short Circuit 2 ** (1988, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 4581

Director Kenneth Johnson’s pleasantly silly 1988 sci-fi fantasy comedy sequel is aimed at an even younger audience than the 1986 teen movie original. Alas, original stars Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg and director John Badham […]

Nov, 03

Short Circuit **** (1986, Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G W Bailey, Brian McNamara) – Classic Movie Review 4580

Director John Badham’s family-friendly 1986 teen movie stars Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg as the pet-loving Stephanie Speck and the brilliant young scientific boffin Newton Crosby. The duo set out to rescue ‘Number Five’, a […]

Nov, 03

The Day the Earth Stood Still *** (2008, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm, Kyle Chandler, Robert Knepper, James Hong) – Classic Movie Review 4519

Keanu Reeves stars as human-like alien Klaatu, originally played by Michael Rennie, in director Scott Derrickson’s tense, exciting and surprisingly good big-budget remake of the beloved 1951 sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Jennifer […]

Oct, 24

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