Derek Winnert

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Life *** (2017, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds) – Movie Review

The trouble with director Daniel Espinosa’s enjoyable and entertaining 2017 sci-fi horror is that is an Alien ripoff, and, while that is in some ways a good thing, in others, it’s bad. The story is very familiar […]

Mar, 24

The Space Between Us ** (2017, Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino, Britt Robertson) – Movie Review

Director Peter Chelsom’s 2017 interplanetary adventure film occupies the space between interesting and boring. It’s way too long and talky for its own good, and some dialogue and scenes could just be cut, which could […]

Feb, 11

The Terrornauts * (1967, Simon Oates, Zena Marshall, Charles Hawtrey, Patricia Hayes, Stanley Meadows, Max Adrian) – Classic Movie Review 4408

Director Montgomery Tully’s insipid 1967 science fiction film The Terrornauts for Amicus Productions was released with They Came from Beyond Space in a flop double bill famously comprising ‘the two worst films the company ever produced’. Zena Marshall stars as Sandy […]

Sep, 24

Solaris ***½ (2002, George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur) – Classic Movie Review 4208

George Clooney acts his socks off as civilian psychiatrist Dr Chris Kelvin, a shrink who sets off to investigate the mystery deaths of scientists on a cut-off space station at the video request of his friend Dr […]

Aug, 20

Queen of Outer Space * (1958, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Dave Willock, Laurie Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 3914

Director Edward Bernds’s hilariously bad 1958 schlock camp cult sci-fi thriller stars Zsa Zsa Gabor (born 1917) as Talleah, Eric Fleming as Captain Neal Patterson and Dave Willock as Lieutenant Mike Cruze, American astronauts drawn by a mysterious force to […]

Jul, 02

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

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

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