Derek Winnert

The Rocky Horror Picture Show **** (1975, Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 1,789

Co-writer and director Jim Sharman and creator Richard O’Brien’s incredibly kitsch and exuberant 1975 musical comedy horror movie parody The Rocky Horror Picture Show stars a super-slinky young Tim Curry, then just 29. Here he […]

Oct, 30 · in Reviews

The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman **½ (2013, Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Rupert Grint, James Buckley, Vincent D’Onofrio, Til Schweiger, Melissa Leo) – Movie Review

Shia LaBeouf stars as a young American called Charlie Countryman, whose mom (Melissa Leo) dies, and tells him from beyond the grave to travel abroad, go to Bucharest. On the plane there, a middle-aged Romanian guy […]

Oct, 30 · in Reviews

Mr Turner ***** (2014, Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey) – Movie Review

With the help of Timothy Spall’s triumphant performance and Dick Pope’s cinematography, Mike Leigh explores the last 25 years of artist J M W Turner, in the 2014 biopic Mr Turner. With the help of […]

Oct, 30

Simon Magus **** (1999, Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Ian Holm, Rutger Hauer, Sean McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 1788

Writer-director Ben Hopkins’s 1999 film is a sincere, atmospheric and enjoyable if occasionally slightly plodding Jewish fable of old Silesia. There the lanky simpleton Simon Magus – nicely played by Noah Taylor (the youth from […]

Oct, 29

Queen of the Damned *** (2002, Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah) – Classic Movie Review 1787

Director Michael Rymer’s richly enjoyable 2002 horror thriller stars Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, taking over from Tom Cruise in this sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). Lestat arises from […]

Oct, 29

The Breakfast Club **** (1985, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1786

Writer-director John Hughes’s fondly remembered 1985 movie is perhaps the key film of the Eighties phenomenon known as the Brat Pack, inspiring the movement and making the director’s reputation. It followed Sixteen Candles (1984), his first […]

Oct, 29

Death to Smoochy ** (2002, Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 1785

Robin Williams stars as horrible children’s TV show host Rainbow Randolph, who is sacked for bribery and corruption and wants revenge on his replacement, a meek folk singer called Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) who dresses […]

Oct, 28

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