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Fifty Shades Darker ** (2017, Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Kim Basinger, Bella Heathcote) – Movie Review

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan resume their roles as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in director James Foley’s compulsively silly 2017 fairy tale romance sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey. Complete with daft dialogue, Niall Leonard writes the tricky to […]

Feb, 19

Pygmalion **** (1938, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4945

Pygmalion? It was one of Shaw’s. And he won an Oscar! Directors Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s 1938 British version of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion about the English speech-study professor who plots to […]

Jan, 26

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever ** (1970, Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Jack Nicholson, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 4073

In director Vincente Minnelli’s 1970 movie musical, Alan Jay Lerner’s Broadway musical nosedives spectacularly on film, thanks to generous helpings of miscasting and a show that has dated disastrously. In one of her few flops, […]

Jul, 24

Travels with My Aunt ** (1972, Maggie Smith, Alex McCowen, Lou Gossett Jr, Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 4039

Director George Cukor’s 1972 comedy drama stars Maggie Smith as Dotty Aunt Augusta Bertram, who takes her prim nephew Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen), a buttoned-up English bank manager, on an eccentric trip to Graham Greeneland, with […]

Jul, 18

Mrs Dalloway **** (1997, Vanessa Redgrave, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Kitchen, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves) – Classic Movie Review 1263

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, not Vanessa Redgrave, who in 1997 at long last finds a part worthy of her again as Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged English socialite reflecting on her safe, comfortable […]

May, 28

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