Derek Winnert

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October Sky **** (1999, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen) – Classic Movie Review 12,745

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Joe Johnston’s 1999 biopic October Sky as American boy Homer Hickam, who sees the launch of a Sputnik in 1957 and wants to build his own rocket, but his gloomy coal-mining […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

October Moth ** (1960, Lana Morris, Lee Patterson) – Classic Movie Review 12,744

The weird 1960 British black and white short second feature drama film October Moth stars Lee Patterson as a mentally unbalanced man in a remote farm who imagines an accident victim is his long-dead mother, […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

Soft Lad *** (2015, Jonny Labey, Suzanne Collins, Daniel Brocklebank, Laura Ainsworth, Craig Stein) – Classic Movie Review 12,743

‘We can’t always have what we want.’ Writer/ director Leon Lopez’s impressive, engrossing 2015 British emotional drama film Soft Lad is an enterprising micro budget self-funded feature starring Daniel Brocklebank, Jonny Labey, Suzanne Collins, Craig […]

Dec, 03

1:54 ***½ (2016, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Sophie Nélisse, Lou-Pascal Tremblay, Robert Naylor) – Classic Movie Review 12,742

The very special 2016 Canadian drama film 1:54 stars Antoine Olivier Pilon as Tim, a shy, talented 16-year old brilliant athlete, who is being bullied at school, along with his gay best friend, classmate Francis […]

Dec, 03

The Secret of Convict Lake *** (1951, Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore, Zachary Scott, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 12,741

The 1951 Western film The Secret of Convict Lake is an interesting, unusual movie in which an isolated community of women find themselves at the mercy of the West’s most dangerous escaped outlaws. ‘6 women […]

Dec, 03

Rosodium **½ (2022, Thibaut Cattelin, Jules Bahloul) – Classic Movie Review 12,740

Thibaut Cattelin stars in the 2022 French film Rosodium as Noah, a young engineer stoned with anti-depressants since a trauma, who is taking a road trip with his two friends when he meets mysterious bad […]

Dec, 02

The Tommy Steele Story ** (1957, Tommy Steele) – Classic Movie Review 12,739

The gleefully exuberant 1957 British musical film The Tommy Steele Story oddly enough stars Tommy Steele in a tale of the pop star’s rise to fame as Britain’s first teen idol and rock and roll […]

Dec, 02

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