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Writers-directors Peter Askin and Douglas McGrath’s 2000 comedy Company Man stars Douglas McGrath, Jeffrey Jones, Reathel Bean, Paul Guilfoyle, Sigourney Weaver, Ryan Phillippe, Heather Matarazzo, Denis Leary, John Turturro, Alan Cumming, Anthony LaPaglia and Woody […]
Director Claude Whatham’s 1991 Buddy’s Song stars Roger Daltrey as Terry Clark, a middle-aged rocker who fights with his yuppie wife Carol (Sharon Duce) and teaches his aspiring teenage son, the eponymous Buddy (Chesney Hawkes), how […]
It’s pretty, teenage delinquent, Ramones fan Riff Randell (P J Soles) versus the strict, non-musical, rock ‘n’ roll-hating new Vince Lombardi high school principal Miss Togar (Mary Woronov), in director Allan Arkush’s Roger Corman-produced 1979 […]
Director Howard W Koch’s 1957 rock ‘n’ roll, juvenile delinquency, youth drama exploitation movie, written by John C. Higgins and Stephen Longstreet, stars Mamie Van Doren and Lori Nelson as American starstruck sisters Penny and Jane Lowe. Alas, […]
George Lucas’s incisive, nostalgia-fuelled 1973 hit comedy drama film American Graffiti is propelled by 40 superlative songs of the Sixties, and effortlessly captures the flavour of the era. In 1962, four small-town California high-school graduate […]
Director Roger Corman’s interesting, tuneful and suspenseful 1957 B-movie cult classic is a rock ‘n’ roll thriller film tailored for the drive-in theatres of the day. Russell Johnson and Jonathan Haze star as killers Joey and […]
Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 1987 youth, family and music drama movie hardly saw the light of day despite its cult film-maker, a hot new star in Michael J Fox who had just hit the big time, and its […]