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Street Corner *** (1953, Anne Crawford, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Terence Morgan, Barbara Murray, Sarah Lawson, Ronald Howard, Eleanor Summerfield, Michael Medwin, Maurice Denham, Thora Hird, Dora Bryan, Joyce Carey) – Classic Movie Review 11,085
‘TORN from the records of women who fight crime!’ Director Muriel Box’s 1953 realist crime drama Street Corner [Both Sides of the Law] is an interesting women’s riposte to The Blue Lamp (1950) that spawned […]
The Book of Henry * (2017, Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, Jacob Tremblay, Dean Norris, Lee Pace) – Movie Review
The Book of Henry is an interesting but dodgy mix of thriller and tear-jerking drama. There’s enough material for three separate movies here. And that is always good. Any one of them might have been […]
Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker **** (2000, voices of Will Friedle, Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy) – Classic Movie Review 5111
Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) faces a final challenge when the maniacal super-villain The Joker seemingly returns from the dead to wreak a new wave of havoc on Gotham City. Director Curt Geda’s imaginative and first-rate […]
The Cell ** (2000, Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 4810
Director Tarsem Singh’s 2000 thriller stars Vince Vaughn as FBI agent Peter Novak, who tries to save a girl whom a sick serial killer (Vincent D’Onofrio) has trapped in a water-tank cell somewhere, with the […]
Lion ** (2016, Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham) – Movie Review
Picked from 4000 boys and unable to speak English when filming began, little Sunny Pawar stars as Saroo, a five-year-old Indian boy who gets separated from his beloved older brother and lost on the streets of Calcutta, […]
David Copperfield ***** (1935, Freddie Bartholomew, W C Fields, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Maureen O’Sullivan, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 3941
Director George Cukor’s ingratiatingly involving, meticulously painstaking, gloriously handsome 1935 MGM production of Charles Dickens’s beloved novel David Copperfield is a marvellous movie entertainment that boasts a wealth of memorable vintage acting turns. They come […]
Spotlight **** (2015, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup) – Movie Review
Spotlight is tense, urgent and dynamic, with great performances and a good flavour of the newsroom. Co-writer / director Tom McCarthy urgently tells the true story of how the Boston Globe’s tenacious Spotlight team of […]