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Still Crazy **** (1998, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail) – Classic Movie Review 1696

Director Brian Gibson’s 1998 rock comedy is a hilarious, poignant hoot. It is a simple but great idea for a movie, brilliantly carried out, with a delicious screenplay by veteran TV comedy experts Dick Clement and Ian La […]

Sep, 21

Pride **** (2014, Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, George MacKay) – Movie Review

Pride is a sweet, funny and vital film, successfully making a popular comedy drama entertainment out of a deadly serious subject as British gay activists work to help the miners during their lengthy strike in the summer of […]

Sep, 11

Blow Dry *** (2001, Natasha Richardson, Alan Rickman, Josh Hartnett, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 1282

Written by Simon Beaufoy, director Paddy Breathnach’s 2001 movie is an often hilarious, outrageous, warm-hearted comedy about the things everyone wants in life – love, happiness and great hair. Beaufoy wrote The Full Monty and […]

Jun, 02

Underworld **** (2003, Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Bill Nighy, Shane Brolly) – Classic Movie Review 1069

Director Len Wiseman’s exciting, visually stylish 2003 gothic action horror movie, made in Budapest, Hungary, stars Kate Beckinsale as the icily toothsome heroine Selene, a vampire warrior belonging to the Death Dealers, a group specialising in assassinating […]

Apr, 07

The Boat That Rocked [Pirate Radio] **** (2009, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Rowe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, Jack Davenport, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 798

A lot was expected of this extremely likeable and funny 2009 comedy from writer-director Richard Curtis, the laugh mastermind behind the scripts of Blackadder, Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley for TV and Four […]

Feb, 04

Love Actually *** (2003, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 369

The British Prime Minister romancing his Downing Street tea lady? Yes actually! Clever writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings) looks – with great affection and optimism – at the state of love in Britain in 2003, […]

Nov, 06

About Time *** (2013, Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Margot Robbie, Tom Hollander) – Movie Review

Domhnall Gleeson stars as a nice middle-class 21-year-old English lad, Tim, who, the night after another bad New Year party at his idyllic family home in Cornwall, is told a big fat, thrilling secret by his […]

Sep, 06

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