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The Disappearance of Finbar *** (1996, Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor) – Classic Movie Review 8764

Co-writer/ director Sue Clayton’s 1996 drama The Disappearance of Finbar stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers in his first leading role as young Irishman Finbar Flynn, who vanishes, upsetting his friends. When he resurfaces in Sweden years […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

A Man of No Importance **** (1994, Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, David Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8,763

Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker and Michael Gambon star in the 1994 comedy drama film A Man of No Importance. Finney plays a closeted gay bus conductor in Dublin in 1963 who puts on Oscar Wilde […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Docteur Popaul [Scoundrel in White] [High Heels] ** (1972, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Daniel Lecourtois) – Classic Movie Review 8762

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1972 black comedy Docteur Popaul [Scoundrel in White] [High Heels] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a medic called Dr Paul Simay, who marries the plain, handicapped Christine Dupont (Mia Farrow), takes over her […]

Jul, 26

St Martin’s Lane [Sidewalks of London] **** (1938, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 8761

Director Tim Whelan’s delightfully quaint 1938 British black and white showbiz fairy tale film St Martin’s Lane [Sidewalks of London] stars Charles Laughton as an ageing street entertainer (or busker) called Charles Staggers, scraping a […]

Jul, 26

The Deep Blue Sea *** (1955, Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8760

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1955 romantic drama The Deep Blue Sea is a stage-bound but generally successful and involving version of the Terence Rattigan play about the romance of a carefree, drunken wartime RAF fighter pilot […]

Jul, 26

Teen Spirit *** (2018, Elle Fanning, Zlatko Buric, Agnieszka Grochowska, Archie Madekwe) – Movie Review

Debut director Max Minghella’s stylish 2018 British drama Teen Spirit is a modern fairy tale with a vibrant pop soundtrack telling the story of the quiet 17-year-old Violet, played by Elle Fanning (The Beguiled, Maleficent), […]

Jul, 25

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

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