Derek Winnert

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Kronos *** (1957, Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 3467

Director Kurt Neumann’s enjoyable 1957 sci-fi epic is a splendidly daft relic of the Fifties, in which a meteorite falls into the sea, spilling out a huge metal absorbing machine called Kronos (so called after […]

Mar, 11

Devil Girl from Mars *** (1954, Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds, Adrienne Corri, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3,123

‘Invasion from Outer Space!… Sights too weird to imagine! Destruction too monstrous to escape!’ However, this is the exotic and amazing Patricia Laffan’s finest hour in the movies. ‘Invasion from Outer Space!… Sights too weird […]

Dec, 02

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

Silent Running **** (1972, Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint) – Classic Movie Review 2924

This nifty cult item is the 1972 directorial début of Douglas Trumbull, visual special effects supervisor wizard for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture […]

Sep, 25

Terminator Genisys *** (2015, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke) – Movie Review

The fourth rebooted Terminator movie with Christian Bale, Terminator Salvation in 2009, did not please enough fans. So Arnold Schwarzenegger has a rare opportunity to grab back his original franchise in director Alan Taylor’s Terminator […]

Jul, 01

Forbidden Planet ***** (1956, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 2555

Director Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a genre classic, haunting and beautiful looking, gaining an immense amount of other-worldly mood and atmosphere from being all artificially filmed in the […]

Jun, 04

Chappie ***½ (2015, Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s AI movie is set in a wasted-looking Johannesburg in the near future when crime is rife but it is patrolled by an oppressive mechanised police force. The movie stars Dev Patel (last […]

Mar, 05

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