Derek Winnert

Garden State *** (2004, Zach Braff, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman) – Classic Movie Review 1498

Writer-director Zach Braff’s appealingly offbeat 2004 comedy is a clear labour of love. Braff also stars quietly troubled young drug-taking LA TV actor Andrew ‘Large’ Largeman, who returns  home to the Garden State for his mother’s […]

Jul, 30 · in Articles

Footloose **** (1984, Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer) – Classic Movie Review 1497

Director Herbert Ross’s 1984 musical-drama movie Footloose has proved an enduring classic. It stars the 26-year-old Kevin Bacon at his young peak in the Eighties in one of his most fondly remembered roles as Ren McCormack, an upbeat, […]

Jul, 30 · in Uncategorized

Dogville **** (2003, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 1496

Director Lars von Trier’s challenging, not to say intimidating, 2003 epic is a minimalist parable playing out on a stage-like set. It stars Nicole Kidman, who gives a tour de force in one of her […]

Jul, 30

Thirteen **** (2003, Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens, Brady Corbet, Ulysses Estrada, Kip Pardue, Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Unger) – Classic Movie Review 1495

Co-writer/director Catherine Hardwicke’s 2003 drama is a real eye-opener. Holly Hunter stars as Melanie Freeland, whose aimless 13-year-old daughter Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) is tempted by her popular if troubled new friend Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed) into a […]

Jul, 30

Dogtown and Z-Boys **** (2001, dir Stacy Peralta) – Classic Movie Review 1494

‘ ‘Old man, look at your life,’ sings Neil Young on the fantastic vintage 70s soundtrack, and here we go. Narrated by Sean Penn, co-writer/director Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary is an exhilarating experience, with pioneering 1970s […]

Jul, 30

Lords of Dogtown *** (2005, Heath Ledger, Emil Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano) – Classic Movie Review 1493

Heath Ledger seems to doing a bad Val Kilmer impression as youth guru-like Skip Engblom, co-proprietor of the Zephyr beach sports shop in Venice, California, during the 1970s, in writer Stacy Peralta’s dramatisation of his […]

Jul, 30

The Abduction Club *** (2002, Matthew Rhys, Daniel Lapaine, Edward Woodward) – Classic Movie Review 1492

Lock up your daughters! Here be a tale of outlaws in search of in-laws. A group of poverty-stricken 18th-century Irish younger-son noblemen takes to kidnapping rich eligible young women in an attempt to secure wealthy wives. The […]

Jul, 30

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