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Restoration *** (1995, Robert Downey Jr, Sam Neill, Polly Walker, Meg Ryan, David Thewlis, Ian McKellen, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 11,715

Robert Downey Jr stars as a 17th-century young doctor exploited by King Charles II.  Director Michael Hoffman’s 1995 film Restoration is based on the 1989 novel by Rose Tremaine, and stars Robert Downey Jr, Sam […]

Nov, 10

Distant Trumpet ** (1952, Derek Bond, Jean Patterson, Derek Elphinstone) – Classic Movie Review 11,147

Director Terence Fisher’s minor, unremarkable 1952 drama film Distant Trumpet stars Derek Bond as a London Harley Street doctor, David Anthony, who takes over from his indisposed brother Richard Anthony (Derek Elphinstone) to perform medical […]

Apr, 29

Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] *** (1956, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau, Giani Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 10,684

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1956 French-Italian film Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] is a rather straightforward sentimental love story melodrama with just the odd touch of the moral issues and no surrealism from Buñuel […]

Dec, 19

Nostradamus *** (1994, Tchéky Karyo, F Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer Julia Ormond, Assumpta Serna, Anthony Higgins, Diana Quick, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 8759

Director Roger Christian’s 1994 biographical drama Nostradamus tells the story of famed 16th-century doctor, physician, astrologer, prognosticator and visionary Nostradamus (Tchéky Karyo), who clashes with the authorities over the bloodletting treatment of the plague, which […]

Jul, 25

The Kids Are All Right **** (2010, Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Josh Hutcherson, Mia Wasikowska, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 3967

Beautifully acted and exquisitely written, co-writer/director Lisa Cholodenko’s poignant, funny, truthful 2010 comedy drama hits to the bone. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play physician Nic and landscape designer Jules, a couple who share a complicated […]

Jul, 04

Petulia *** (1968, Julie Christie, George C Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Knight, Pippa Scott) – Classic Movie Review 3,537

Richard Lester takes us back to the San Francisco-style kookie Swinging Sixties era, in the interesting but shaky 1968 romantic drama film Petulia. Julie Christie stars as the Arch Kook Petulia, a zany young British […]

Apr, 06

Last Holiday **** (1950, Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 2592

Director Henry Cass’s neat and nimble 1950 small-scale black comedy stars Alec Guinness, who is his usual expert and excellent self in a subtly sentimental, neatly scripted original story and screenplay by J B Priestley. […]

Jun, 13

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