Derek Winnert

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What Richard Did ***½ (2012, Jack Reynor, Fionn Walton, Gavin Drea, Patrick Gibson, Liana O’Cleirigh, Róisín Murphy) – Movie Review

Jack Reynor stars in his breakout performance as Richard Karlsen, head of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, in director Lenny (Leonard) Abrahamson’s quietly devastating 2012 Irish drama. In the summer between the end […]

Apr, 13

Mask **** (1985, Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 2310

Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1985 movie tells the extraordinarily uplifting real-life story about teenaged lad Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), horribly defaced from a bone disease with a massive facial skull deformity, and his relationship with his […]

Mar, 25

The Damned [These Are the Damned] ***½ (1963, Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox, Walter Gotell) – Classic Movie Review 2231

Director Joseph Losey’s neglected 1963 Hammer horror movie The Damned is a weird, unsettling, imaginative and strangely compelling experience. Losey mixes movie genres from biker melodrama via teen romance to sci-fi with seemingly reckless abandon […]

Mar, 02

The Blob *** (1958, Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe) – Classic Movie Review 2103

Director Irvin S Yeaworth Jnr’s 1958 B-movie horror flick stars Steve McQueen in his first leading role, billed as Steven McQueen. In this irresistible low-budget schlock, a gelatinous alien goo arrives on Earth via a meteorite and begins […]

Jan, 23

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd * (2003, Derek Richardson, Eric Christian Olsen, Eugene Levy) – Classic Movie Review 1964

Two incredibly silly high-school boys called Harry and Lloyd get unwittingly mixed up in the scam when their mean School Principal conspires with the dinner lady to perpetrate a fraud. Derek Richardson (as Harry Dunne) […]

Dec, 16

Friday the 13th *** (1980, Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Laurie Bartram, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 1,815

Sean S Cunningham’s 1980 stalk-and-slasher film hit Friday the 13th established itself as a blockbuster, a firm horror favourite and a long-running franchise. Betsy Palmer stars as Mrs Pamela Voorhees. Watch out for Kevin Bacon […]

Nov, 07

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble *** (1976, John Travolta, Glynnis O’Connor, Diana Hyland) – Classic Movie Review 1730

The young John Travolta (aged 22, playing a teenager) lights up director Randal Kleiser’s excellently handled, very affecting 1976 heart-tugging true story drama as Tod Lubitch, the teenage boy forced to live in the Plastic […]

Oct, 02

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