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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

Braveheart **** (1995, Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan) – Classic Movie Review 1138

Director Mel Gibson’s boisterous, robust, gory 1995 Scottish historical action adventure triumph won five Oscars, including best picture, director, cinematography, makeup and sound effects editing, and proved one of his biggest successes. As star performer, Gibson […]

Apr, 23

The English Patient **** (1996, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth) – Classic Movie Review 736

Writer-director Anthony Mingella’s stunning-looking 1996 David Lean-style epic is an unabashed tugger at the heartstrings set at the end of World War Two. Star Ralph Fiennes gives a lofty and aloof performance, leading with his […]

Jan, 23

The Terminal *** (2004, Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride) – Classic Movie Review 483

Director Steven Spielberg’s 2004 airport drama is fascinating and of course impeccably made. It’s warm hearted and amusing but it’s also rather lethargic, artificial and slightly lacking enough spontaneous charm. Real life is re-invented as a […]

Dec, 07

The Lady Vanishes ***** (1938, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Catherine Lacey, Googie Withers, Mary Clare) – Classic Movie Review 118

Fighting off strong competition from The 39 Steps, the 1938 treasure The Lady Vanishes is (arguably) by a narrow margin Alfred Hitchcock’s best British movie before he left for America to make Rebecca in 1940 […]

Aug, 02

Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107

This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]

Jul, 30

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