Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "rock star"

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The Rose ***** (1979, Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus, David Keith) – Classic Movie Review 9682

The colourful 1979 romantic musical drama film The Rose stars Bette Midler as self-destructive rock star Rose, who takes up with chauffeur-drifter Huston Dyer (Frederic Forrest). Midler won a Golden Globe and both stars were […]

Apr, 27

Hearts of Fire ** (1987, Bob Dylan, Fiona Flanagan, Rupert Everett) – Classic Movie Review 8845

Director Richard Marquand’s 1987 Hearts of Fire features the irresistible paring of Bob Dylan and Rupert Everett. How great is that, and how unusual? And both of them singing, too, Dylan performing two of his […]

Aug, 20

Morons from Outer Space (1985, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Dinsdale Landen, James B Sikking) – Classic Movie Review 8828

Eighties TV’s normally funny men Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones write and star in director Mike Hodges’s moronic 1985 big-screen comedy space adventure Morons from Outer Space, which combines lowbrow British humour and daffy […]

Aug, 14

Pink Floyd: The Wall *** (1982, Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Bob Hoskins, James Laurenson) – Classic Movie Review 8737

Director Alan Parker’s 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall, a visual interpretation of Pink Floyd’s massive-selling concept album, is an overblown, much too literal view of the descent into madness of a rock star called […]

Jul, 20

Rocketman **** (2019, Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones, Stephen Graham) – Movie Review

Taron Egerton stars in Rocketman (2019) in a bravura performance as Reg Dwight, who nicks his new first name from his band mate Elton Dean and supposedly his new surname from John Lennon, though apparently […]

May, 25

Top Secret! **** (1984, Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 6005

In 1984 there were things to laugh about and funny people to make us laugh. Writer-director Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s neglected and underestimated 1984 World War Two spy send-up and Elvis films […]

Aug, 31

A Bigger Splash ***½ (2015, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tilda Swinton) – Movie Review

Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts and Tilda Swinton have a grand time in director Luca Guadagnino’s intriguing, tantalising mystery drama puzzle. It’s both arty and full on, with the talented starry quartet up for it, […]

Feb, 11

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