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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

Moonlight ***½ (2016, Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali) – Movie Review

Writer-director Barry Jenkins’s 2016 story of self-discovery spotlights three eras in the troubled early life of a young black-American man called Chiron from childhood via mid-teenager to young adulthood. It is based on the play In […]

Jan, 09

Fences *** (2016, Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson) – Movie Review

Fences (2016) is an uneasy, stagey and set-bound stage to screen drama of a distinguished hit Broadway play. But the movie is memorable, however, for its characters, drama and dialogue and, especially, for its performances. […]

Jan, 09

A Hole in the Head *** (1959, Frank Sinatra, Edward G Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Eddie Hodges, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 4726

Alas, a great stage play, a great cast (Frank Sinatra, Edward G Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Eddie Hodges, Keenan Wynn and Joi Lansing), a great director (Frank Capra) and a great song […]

Nov, 30

Half a Sixpence *** (1967, Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard, Penelope Horner) – Classic Movie Review 4660

The H G Wells’s 1905 novel Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul was filmed in 1941 by director Carol Reed as Kipps. Much later in 1963, it became the stage show Half a Sixpence in London’s West […]

Nov, 16

Once More, with Feeling! ** (1960, Yul Brynner, Kay Kendall, Gregory Ratoff, Geoffrey Toone, Maxwell Shaw, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 4513

Director Stanley Donen’s 1960 British comedy proved Kay Kendall’s last film, made while, unknown to her, she was suffering from terminal leukaemia, and it is a huge tribute to her that it remains attractive solely […]

Oct, 23

Una ** (2016, Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed) – Movie Review

Director Benedict Andrews’s 2016 Britsh film is a drab and disappointing drama that plays uncinematically and so feels like it is based on a stage play – and it turns out it is, screen-writer David […]

Oct, 08

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