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Pandaemonium *** (Linus Roache, John Hannah, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof) – Classic Movie Review 1699

Director Julien Temple is in his element in this imaginative and worthwhile 2000 British biographical drama as Frank Cottrell Boyce’s intelligent screenplay tells of youthful friendship and betrayal between two world famous poets at the […]

Sep, 21

Jude *** (1997, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet) – Classic Movie Review 1696

A lugubrious-looking Christopher Eccleston is hugely gloomy in director Michael Winterbottom’s depressingly downbeat 1997 film version of the Thomas Hardy tragic romance yarn Jude the Obscure. Lovestruck stonemason Jude Fawley (Eccleston) pursues his cousin, Sue […]

Sep, 20

Topsy-Turvy **** (1999, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 719

What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]

Jan, 19

Layer Cake **** (2004, Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Lunghi) – Classic Movie Review 660

Daniel Craig stars as a London-based criminal who wants to quit the cocaine business, in debut director Matthew Vaughn’s better-than-most 2004 British crime film Layer Cake. Another day, another Brit crime thriller, but this one […]

Jan, 10

Sunshine on Leith *** (2013, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Jane Horrocks, Paul Brannigan, Freya Mavor) – Movie Review

Two Scots soldiers coming home from serving in Afghanistan link arms and dance and sing along the streets of Edinburgh’s old town. How gay is that? If you’re not expecting a musical, or if you’re […]

Sep, 27

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels **** (1998, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 120

Guy Ritchie’s 1998 London lowlife crime black comedy Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels sucks as a serious thriller but soars as a laddish comedy for all those who share its dangerously larky sense of […]

Aug, 03

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