Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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Porky’s ** (1981, Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Kim Cattrall, Art Hindle) – Classic Movie Review 5650

Writer-director Bob Clark’s irrepressibly, joyfully vulgar and smutty 1981 Canadian coming-of-age sex comedy Porky’s hit the jackpot, following in the wake of Animal House (1978). It cost only $5 million and earned $106 million at […]

Jun, 21

The Man They Could Not Hang ***½ (1939, Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox) – Classic Movie Review 5630 

Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 horror movie finds Boris Karloff playing a crazed scientist again, this time Dr Henryk Savaard, who is accused of and executed for the murder of a student helping him in an […]

Jun, 18

The Invisible Woman *** (1940, Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 5624

Director A Edward Sutherland’s amusingly silly, quite ingratiating 1941 Universal Studios sci-fi horror comedy stars John Barrymore as the mad professor Gibbs, who invents an invisibility machine and makes a model girl Kitty Carroll (Virginia […]

Jun, 17

The Invisible Man’s Revenge *** (1944, Jon Hall, Leon Errol, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 5622

‘All NEW! All Thrills!’ Universal’s third Invisible Man movie follows James Whale’s The Invisible Man (1933) with Claude Rains and Joe May’s The Invisible Man Returns (1940) with Vincent Price. There was also The Invisible Woman (1940) […]

Jun, 17

Caged Heat *** (1974, Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 5361

Writer-director Jonathan Demme makes his impressive and inventive film début in 1974 with this women-in-prison exploitation movie, made for producer Roger Corman. A sensationalist tale of rape, riot and revenge, it is the start of a […]

Apr, 29

Manon des Sources [Manon of the Spring] ***** (1986, Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil) – Classic Movie Review 5283

Emmanuelle Béart stars as Manon, who has grown up to be a lovely shepherdess, in director Claude Berri’s haunting, compelling 1986 climax to author Marcel Pagnol’s two-part movie saga that began with Jean de Florette. […]

Apr, 13

Frank & Lola ** (2016, Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Justin Long, Michael Nyqvist, Emmanuelle Devos, Rosanna Arquette) – Movie Review

Michael Shannon rivets the attention as troubled chef Frank, a fiery cauldron always about to bubble over, way out-classing Imogen Poots as his girlfriend Lola, in debut writer-director Matthew Ross’s darkly playful, teasing psycho-sexual love […]

Apr, 11

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