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A Little Princess **** (1995, Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 845
Director Alfonso Cuarôn’s 1995 movie is a marvellous remake of the 1911 classic novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden) and the beloved 1939 Shirley Temple […]
Breakfast on Pluto **** (2005, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Eamonn Owens) – Classic Movie Review 830
‘Same world, different planet!’ In brave, bold turn, and looking pretty as a picture, Cillian Murphy is a fabulous knockout as an Irish boy called Patrick Braden, who wants to be a girl called Kitten […]
8 Minutes Idle *** (2012, Ophelia Lovibond, Tom Hughes, Antonia Thomas, Paul Kaye, Jack Ashton, Luke Newberry) – Film Review
Director Mark Simon Hewis’s Britcom is a quirky, good-natured, high-spirited call-centre comedy that provides some nifty acting, lots of rude laughs and a great slacker flavour and taste of Bristol. Tom Hughes stars as handsome […]
The Twilight Saga: New Moon *** (2009, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen, Anna Kendrick) – Classic Movie Review 587
New Moon, the 2009 Part Two in The Twilight Saga, focuses entirely on Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan, who is heartbroken when her vampire lover, Edward Cullen, leaves just after her 18th birthday. She finds solace […]
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone] **** (2001, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman) – Classic Movie Review 512
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone] is the very first Harry Potter movie! Director Chris Columbus’s 2001 film version of J K Rowling’s 1997 story about the schoolboy with […]
To Catch a Thief ***** (1954, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams) – Classic Movie Review 443
Alfred Hitchcock’s purringly smooth, thoroughly enjoyable 1954 escapist romantic comedy-mystery has the inestimable benefit of starring the director’s two favourites, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. As a thriller, it’s at the opposite end of the […]
No Country for Old Men ***** (2007, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin) – Classic Movie Review 334
The Coen Brothers’ sensational, sizzling 2007 crime thriller film No Country for Old Men won four Oscars, was their biggest hit so far, and was undoubtedly the movie of the year. Certainly the Academy Award […]