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Kill Your Friends **½ (2015, Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, Georgia King, James Corden, Jim Piddock) – Movie Review

Director Owen Harris’s British pitch-dark comedy crime-thriller film overall must be judged a missed opportunity and a misfire. But it comes out firing on all barrels and certainly has its attractions and laughs. Alas, there are […]

Nov, 05

The Lady in the Van ***½ (2015, Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Deborah Findlay, Frances de la Tour, David Calder, Gwen Taylor, Jim Broadbent) – Movie Review

Maggie Smith is brilliant, of course, re-creating her stage role as Miss Shepherd, the transient derelict lady who parks up her van in playwright Alan Bennett’s Camden front drive for 15 years. It’s based on a more […]

Oct, 15

Into the Woods ***** (2014, Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Johnny Depp) – Movie Review

Seizing her chance to overact for America, Meryl Streep triumphs as The Wicked Witch in director Rob Marshall’s enormously entertaining, glorious looking, highly imaginative and quite magical movie version of the legendary Stephen Sondheim stage show. […]

Dec, 19

All or Nothing **** (2002, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 1873

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s 2002 gem stars his regular actor collaborator, British national treasure Timothy Spall, who is brilliant as Phil Bassett, a London cabbie wallowing in a sea of troubles and bad fares. Director Leigh’s […]

Nov, 23

Begin Again *** (2013, Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo) – Movie Review

Keira Knightley stars as English singer-songwriter Gretta who goes to New York with her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) when he lands a deal with a major label. But the manipulative Dave is unfaithful, naturally rattling […]

Jul, 09

Twenty Four Seven ***½ (1997, Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum) – Classic Film Review 479

Bob Hoskins enjoys himself enormously in a tailor-made role as Alan Darcy, an inspired visionary who sets up a boxing club for a bleak English Midlands town’s dissolute youth. His diaries chart the lads’ comic […]

Dec, 07

One Chance *** (2013, James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney) – Movie Review

Putting away the abrasive side of his personality, James Corden is surprising likeable in this uplifting, funny, delightfully feel-good Brit biopic. He gives an extremely appealing, often showstopping turn as Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, a […]

Oct, 24

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