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Posts Tagged "Alan Cumming"

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Nicholas Nickleby **** (2002, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2719

Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]

Jul, 18

Annie *** (1999, Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Alan Cumming, Alicia Morton) – Classic Movie Review 1885

This surprise 1999 remake of the 1982 movie by Rob Marshall, the director of Chicago, is very entertaining. Disney’s remake follows the successful 1998 Broadway revival of the show. It is well regarded as a more […]

Nov, 25

Plunkett & MacLeane **** (1999, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Liv Tyler, Alan Cumming, Michael Gambon) – Classic Film Review 792

Here’s an oddity: an old-style highwayman adventure yarn with a flashy 90s new-style gloss and a welter of anachronisms on the soundtrack, with present-day street language and rock music. The flash is put on it […]

Feb, 02

Emma ***** (1996, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Ewan McGregor, Phyllida Law, Sophie Thompson, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi) – Classic Movie Review 439

Gwyneth Paltrow as the endlessly interfering Emma Woodhouse and Jeremy Northam as her eventual true love Mr Knightley are splendid in what had been the long awaited film of Jane Austen’s dazzlingly brilliant novel. The […]

Nov, 23

Any Day Now – Film Review

Dear Alan Cumming, I’ve followed you film career for, what?, maybe 20 or so years now, since a film called Prague way back in 1992. You’re an extremely talented, wonderfully entertaining man, but you’ve been […]

Sep, 06

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