movie reviews – Retro Movie Geek

by Peter Nielsen “The Lure of gold can make a man do anything! Anything!” During the opening credits of this movie, we see someone being dug out of, what appears to be, a collapsed mine…

by Peter Nielsen ”Something deadly in the water… more dangerous than any shark or killer whale!” Here’s another one that slipped past me when I was young! I remember the trailer… I remember reading about…

By Jason D. Grooms There are scant few creatures that speak louder or bigger to the American fascination with monster lore than the super-hairy, unkempt, woods-tromping, barefooted beast we all know and love. No, I…

Peter’s Retro Movie Reviews: Outland (1981)

January 27, 2012
Tagged as: 1980s, movie reviews, Outland, Peter Hyams, retro movies, Sean Connery

by Peter Nielsen Welcome to Con-Am 27, a small mining colony on the surface of Io, Jupiter’s third moon. The conditions are harsh with only one-sixth of Earth’s gravity and no atmosphere. The work is…