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All or Nothing **** (2002, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 1873

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s 2002 gem stars his regular actor collaborator, British national treasure Timothy Spall, who is brilliant as Phil Bassett, a London cabbie wallowing in a sea of troubles and bad fares. Director Leigh’s […]

Nov, 23 · in Reviews

Vera Drake ***** (2004, Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 1872

Award-winning Imelda Staunton is a revelation as Vera Drake, a cheery Fifties London cleaner, who has a secret life ‘helping young girls out’ as an abortionist. Performing an abortion is illegal in England at the […]

Nov, 23 · in Reviews

Naked ***** (1993, David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge) – Classic Movie Review 1871

Writer/director Mike Leigh’s 1993 eye-opener is one of his most powerful, controversial and uncompromising films, angering feminists big time. They booed and heckled him, trying to stop him speaking when he presented his movie at […]

Nov, 22

Closer **** (2004, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen) – Classic Movie Review 1870

The intertwining lives of four strangers in London come under the microscope in this smart, stylish and witty 2004 movie from posh US director Mike Nichols. The four stars – Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie […]

Nov, 22

Silkwood **** (1983, Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher) – Classic Movie Review 1869

This 1983 little gem from the late, great director Mike Nichols is a highly intelligent, high-profile real-life thriller, taken by socially concerned screenwriters Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen from the headlines of the day. Nichols said […]

Nov, 22

A Chorus Line **** (1985, Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Alyson Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1868

A Chorus Line is one of the greatest of all Broadway musicals, as well as one of the longest runners of all time) and unexpected director Richard Attenborough’s 1985 movie version is pleasingly entertaining. The show […]

Nov, 22

Naked Tango **** (1990, Mathilda May, Vincent D’Onofrio, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 1867

Writer-director Leonard Schrader’s 1990 eerie and exciting dance-inspired thriller stars Mathilda May as a newly wed young European woman who assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina and finds herself caught up in a lurid […]

Nov, 22

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