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The First Great Train Robbery [The Great Train Robbery] *** (1978, Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 9502
‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever heard of such a thing!’ All aboard the London to Folkestone express for writer-director Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, The First Great Train Robbery [The Great Train Robbery], […]
Escape from Pretoria **** (2020, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Francis Annan’s real-life thriller Escape from Pretoria is a good old-fashioned prison escape story, with a commendably intense and non-starry performance by Daniel Radcliffe as a Seventies jailed ANC activist who makes a huge […]
America America **** (1963 Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam) – Classic Movie Review 9401
Elia Kazan was Oscar-nominated as writer, producer (Best Picture) and director for this uplifting, if seemingly endless chunk of his own family biography about a young Anatolian Greek, living in the oppressions of Turkey more […]
Ford v Ferrari [Le Mans 66] *** (2019, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Caitriona Balfe, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review
Matt Damon and Christian Bale do very well indeed in reliable, stalwart star turns as gifted American car designer Carroll Shelby and brilliant British driver Ken Miles, who battle to build a revolutionary racing car […]
Greenfingers **** (2000, Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer, Adam Fogerty, Lucy Punch) – Classic Movie Review 8874
Writer-director Joel Hershman’s Greenfingers stars Clive Owen as prisoner Colin Briggs, who is moved to an open jail, where his friendship with a dying Irish convict, Fergus Wilks (David Kelly), leads to a passion for […]
Yours, Mine and Ours *** (1968, Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 8638
Director Melville Shavelson’s 1968 family film Yours, Mine and Ours is the true-story based comedy in which widowed dad of 10 children Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda) weds widowed mother of eight kids, Helen North Beardsley […]
The White Crow **** (2018, Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann) – Movie Review
Whether emoting or dancing, Oleg Ivenko is mesmerising as Rudolf Nureyev in director Ralph Fiennes’s intense, multi-layered story of the Russian dancer’s defection to the West. How he dances! He hardly looks like Nureyev, really, […]