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The Crying Game **** (1992, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2096

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s striking and involving 1992 political thriller greatly impressed audiences with its unusual story and weird mix of sex and terrorism, especially in America, where it was a surprise hit, taking $62.5million there after […]

Jan, 21

Paddington **** (2014, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman) – Movie Review

Michael Bond‘s beloved talking bear Paddington finds his right voice in Ben Whishaw and his right adoptive parents in Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins. They play the kindly middle-class parents Mr and Mrs Brown, who discover […]

Nov, 26

Life Is Sweet ***** (1990, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks) – Classic Movie Review 1875

If only all British comedy movies could be as brilliant as this! Writer-director Mike Leigh’s 1990 film is extremely sweet indeed – yes and of course just as sour, too. Leigh presents a desperately sad, […]

Nov, 23

Vera Drake ***** (2004, Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 1872

Award-winning Imelda Staunton is a revelation as Vera Drake, a cheery Fifties London cleaner, who has a secret life ‘helping young girls out’ as an abortionist. Performing an abortion is illegal in England at the […]

Nov, 23

Get Santa *** (2014, Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Warwick Davis) – Movie Review

Okay, then it’s nearly Christmas, and everybody wants to see Jim Broadbent’s Santa Claus – and here it is! The ho-ho-ho jolly Broadbent’s got top billing is the showy, fun role. Broadbent’s a classy actor and […]

Nov, 20

Vanity Fair *** (2004, Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Romola Garai) – Classic Movie Review 1751

Likeable and engaging, director Mira Nair’s 2004 film is a very fair if slightly uninspired stab at filming a difficult novel, plodding relentlessly through the seemingly endless and complex detail and plotlines of William Makepeace […]

Oct, 07

Iris **** (2001, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville) – Classic Movie Review 1695

Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent are heartbreaking in co-writer/director Richard Eyre’s sterling 2001 biopic of acclaimed British author Iris Murdoch. The film chronicles her life from her time at Oxford, where she met the love […]

Sep, 20

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