Derek Winnert

8 Mile *** (2002, Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 1523

Director Curtis Hanson’s 2002 release stars Eminem, who does his rap thing and tries for a bit of acting, too, in this acclaimed drama of a poor, misunderstood boy in the backstreets of Detroit. Eminem impressed […]

Aug, 06 · in Reviews

All the Right Moves *** (1983, Tom Cruise, Craig T Nelson, Lea Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 1522

Director Michael Chapman’s sensitive 1983 sports and coming-of-age drama All the Right Moves provides an engaging early vehicle for Tom Cruise. The megastar-to-be is on compelling and convincing form as Stefen Djordjevic, an eager and stubborn […]

Aug, 05 · in Reviews

Losin’ It *** (1983, Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P Navin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 1521

Director Curtis Hanson’s little-known 1983 comedy stars the 21-year-old Tom Cruise as Woody, a young and innocent Los Angeles kid, who heads south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico, with three stereotypically rowdy and randy […]

Aug, 05

Wild Things *** (1998, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 1520

Director John McNaughton’s extremely sexy, smart, twisting and teasing 1998 teen thriller perhaps doesn’t quite deliver the class A goods, but it does a very good job of gripping, amusing and entertaining a lot along […]

Aug, 05

The Outsiders ***** (1983, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1519

In 1983, director Francis Ford Coppola conjures up a dream cast for his first of his two adaptations of an S E Hinton classic novel about youth. It is set in 1966 and follows the disturbed, […]

Aug, 04

Finding Forrester ***½ (2001, Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin) – Classic Movie Review 1518

Want to see Sean Connery spouting literature and cycling along the streets of New York? Director Gus Van Sant’s 2001 drama is the film for you! The 70-year-old Connery brings on his prose, his pushbike […]

Aug, 04

Top Gun **** (1986, Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Tom Skerritt) – Classic Movie Review 1,517

Tony Scott’s irresistible, ultra-canny 1986 blockbuster Top Gun shot the 24-year-old Tom Cruise into the Hollywood stratosphere as ‘Maverick’, who battles the ultra-cool ‘Iceman’ (Val Kilmer). Director Tony Scott’s irresistible, ultra-canny 1986 blockbuster Top Gun […]

Aug, 04

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