Derek Winnert

Junior ** (1994, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 5243

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, the likeable stars of Twins (1988), are re-teamed as doctors Alex Hesse and Larry Arbogast for director Ivan Reitman’s less funny but still amusing 1994 silly comedy. Playing off his macho image, […]

Apr, 03 · in Reviews

In Celebration **** (1975, Alan Bates, James Bolam, Brian Cox, Constance Chapman, Bill Owen, Gabrielle Daye) – Classic Movie Review 5242

Lindsay Anderson films David Storey’s first-rate, moving play In Celebration about three educated sons (Alan Bates, James Bolam and Brian Cox) going back home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their mam and coal […]

Apr, 03 · in Reviews

Jungle Captive * (1945, Otto Kruger, Phil Brown, Rondo Hatton, Vicky Lane, Jerome Cowan, Amelita Ward, Eddie Acuff) – Classic Movie Review 5240

Director Harold Young’s very cheap, risibly awful 1945 sequel to Captive Wild Woman (1943) and Jungle Woman (1944) has almost nothing to recommend it beyond some noble efforts by the actors against the odds and its […]

Apr, 02

Jungle Woman * (1944, Evelyn Ankers, J Carrol Naish, Acquanetta, Samuel S Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 5241

‘RAPTUROUS BEAUTY!… FURY OF A BEAST!’ Director Reginald LeBorg’s hilariously banal, incredibly cheap-looking 1944 Universal Pictures sequel to 1943’s Captive Wild Woman has an almost identical story of what happens after a second mad scientist, […]

Apr, 02

Captive Wild Woman ** (1943, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, John Carradine, Martha Vickers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Fay Helm) – Classic Movie Review 5239

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1943 horror movie stars John Carradine as mad scientist Dr Sigmund Walters, who is experimenting in glandular research and transfuses a woman’s blood into the veins of Cheela, the circus ape. Then, […]

Apr, 02

Captives *** (1994, Julia Ormond, Tim Roth, Siobhan Redmond, Keith Allen, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 5238

Director Angela Pope’s 1994 cinema debut is a challenging drama, with Julia Ormond well cast as a young English dentist who starts a passionate, secret affair with a prisoner patient (Tim Roth) moving towards the […]

Apr, 02

Sweet as You Are **** (1987, Miranda Richardson, Liam Neeson, Alex Pakenham) – Classic Movie Review 5,235

Angela Pope’s urgent 1987 British TV drama film Sweet as You Are stars Liam Neeson as a married college lecturer who finds out that he is carrying the HIV virus after a one night stand […]

Apr, 02

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