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Nicholas Nickleby **** (2002, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2719

Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]

Jul, 18

The Crucifer of Blood *** (1991, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Simon Callow, John Castle, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 2584

All-American actor Charlton Heston (born plain John Carter) dons the British sleuth deerstalker and gets to play Sherlock Holmes for a surprisingly successful Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outing. It is tensely and atmospherically directed by […]

Jun, 12

A Bridge Too Far **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann) – Classic Movie Review 1.398

Director Richard Attenborough’s intelligent, well-meaning and honourable 1977 epic anti-war film A Bridge Too Far is rousingly staged on a huge canvas. It grasps the nettle of tackling the tricky subject of a military disaster, […]

Jul, 06

The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300

Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]

Jun, 07

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

Never Say Never Again *** (1983, Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barbara Carrera, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 990

Director Irving Kershner’s 1983 007 spy movie Never Say Never Again stars a fit-looking 52-year-old Sean Connery, who confidently returns for a one-off grab at his James Bond crown in a remake of the 1965 […]

Mar, 25

The Big Sleep *** (1978, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone, Edward Fox, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 742

Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]

Jan, 24

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