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Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool **** (2017, Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber) – Movie Review
In 1981, British actor Peter Turner got a dramatic phone call that his former lover, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing hospital care. Film Stars Don’t […]
Letter to Brezhnev **** (1985, Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth, Alfred Molina) – Classic Movie Review 5246
Director Chris Bernard’s 1985 British comedy drama has a fine star team in Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth and Alfred Molina and was a much-deserved big hit in its home UK. It tells a […]
Blonde Fist *** (1991, Margi Clarke, Carroll Baker, Ken Hutchison, Sharon Power) – Classic Movie Review 5189
Writer-director Frank Clarke’s 1991 film has a strong premise about a spunky Liverpool lass who takes up female boxing and it is rewarded with a knockout performance from the treasurable Liverpudlian legend Margi Clarke […]
The Terence Davies Trilogy **** (1983, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Terry O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor, Wilfrid Brambell) – Classic Movie Review 5156
Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]
Distant Voices, Still Lives **** (1988, Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht) – Classic Movie Review 5155
Terence Davies’s haunting 1988 autobiographical British film Distant Voices, Still Lives is a poignant study of postwar working-class life in Liverpool. It stars Pete Postlethwaite. Freda Dowie, Lorraine Ashbourne and Jean Boht. Writer-director Terence Davies’s […]
Gumshoe **** (1971, Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay) – Classic Movie Review 3328
Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]
An Awfully Big Adventure ** (1995, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Peter Firth, Alun Armstrong, Prunella Scales, Rita Tushingham, Nicola Pagett) – Classic Movie Review 1248
Hugh Grant and his director Mike Newell reunite in 1995 for An Awfully Big Adventure after their worldwide hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) for a much less winning outing – more of a […]