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Devil’s Knot *** (2013, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon) – Film Review

Director Atom Egoyan delivers an honest, conscientious and compelling film dramatization of the real-life savage murders of three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore – in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993, and the subsequent […]

Jun, 12

My Life So Far **½ (1999, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Irène Jacob, Robert Norman, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 1270

In 1999 Hugh Hudson directed My Life So Far, a bittersweet film that covers the start of a boy’s life during the early 20th century. Colin Firth gives a typically attractive star turn as the […]

May, 31

The Importance of Being Earnest ***** (2002, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Reese Witherspoon, Frances O’Connor, Anna Massey, Tom Wilkinson, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 1162

Writer-director Oliver Parker’s 2002 film follows up his 1999 success with another Oscar Wilde adaptation, An Ideal Husband. Parker’s film of The Importance of Being Earnest is a marvellous, hilarious, sumptuous and above all fresh […]

May, 01

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason ** (2004, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 749

Dear diary, As I was writing back in 2001, I’ve found total bliss with my Mr Right, a clumsy bloke called Darcy, (Colin Firth). But now, as I start this new diary in 2004, there’s […]

Jan, 25

The Railway Man *** (2013, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Based on his autobiography, this is the upsetting and honourable true story about Englishman Eric Lomax, one of thousands of Allied prisoners working like slaves on the construction of the Thai/Burma ‘Death Railway’ during World War […]

Jan, 09

Mamma Mia! **** (2008, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters) – Classic Movie Review 532

Director Phyllida Lloyd turns in an infectiously exuberant movie of the fABBAlous British stage musical in 2008. Anyone simply wondering what all the fuss is about or who cares little for the music of ABBA doesn’t […]

Dec, 16

Bridget Jones’s Diary *** (2001, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 371

Dear diary, It’s April 13 2001. This morning I got up, had a fag, went to work, was fed up as usual, and I wanted to see a good movie in the evening. So I […]

Nov, 06

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