Check out all of the posts tagged with "rock star".
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making his film debut in the 1984 spoof Top Secret!, Val Kilmer raises lots of laughs as Nick Rivers, a rock ‘n’ roll singer hero mixed up with Nazis, a beautiful heroine and the […]
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, […]