Derek Winnert

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Kong: Skull Island *** (2017, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman, John C Reilly) – Movie Review

It is 1971, and America is afflicted by the twin monsters of the Vietnam War and Nixon, and a team of explorers and soldiers want to get away from it all – and travel to […]

Mar, 08

King Kong Lives * (1986, Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, John Ashton) – Classic Movie Review 4659

In director John Guillermin’s unloved and unwanted 1986 sequel to his 1976 King Kong remake, the great ape Kong (Peter Elliott) is resuscitated after falling off the World Trade Center tower and falling into a coma […]

Nov, 16

Murders in the Rue Morgue **** (1932, Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames, Bert Roach, Brandon Hurst) – Classic Movie Review 2681

Director Robert Florey’s vintage 1932 Universal Studios horror movie stars the studio’s great horror icon Bela Lugosi as a mad doctor called Dr Mirakle. After Dracula, Dr Mirakle is one of Lugosi’s most important and […]

Jul, 09

Tarzan, the Ape Man **** (1932, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 2,236

‘Sensational 1932 M G M Picture Tarzan, the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller the swimming Adonis as Tarzan’.  Director W S Van Dyke’s exciting classic 1932 MGM version Tarzan, the Ape Man finds the right […]

Mar, 04

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes **** (1984, Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 1451

Hugh Hudson makes a lovely job of directing the exhilarating 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. It is exciting that Christopher Lambert is an Ape Man hero obviously with a […]

Jul, 19

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes *** (2014, Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Movie Review

It’s 2026 and human civilisation has collapsed. A band of human survivors genetically immune to the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier is living in a guarded tower within the ruined city of San Francisco. […]

Jul, 14

Congo ** (1995, Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker) – So Bad It’s Good Movie Review 11

What did the female gorilla say to the handsome primatologist? Nothing. Gorillas can’t speak, except in director Frank Marshall’s 1995 summer blockbuster Congo. It’s an unabashed old-style adventure movie, riding high on the back of […]

Mar, 27

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