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Posts Tagged "Stephen Frears"
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The Program *** (2015, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Chris O’Dowd, Dustin Hoffman) – Movie Review
Ben Foster is good as cyclist Lance Armstrong, who never stops cycling – or lying, apparently. ‘I have never tested positive’, he says positively as he categorically denies drug-taking over and over again. Foster is […]
Mrs Henderson Presents ***½ (2005, Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, Will Young, Toby Jones, Thelma Barlow, Christopher Guest) – Classic Movie Review 2977
Directed Stephen Frears’s highly entertaining 2005 comedy drama tells the engaging true story of the woman who ran a pioneering nudie theatre in London and kept the show open all through the WW2 Blitz. Judi […]
Prick Up Your Ears **** (1987, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters, Frances Barber, Lindsay Duncan) – Classic Movie Review 2976
Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]
The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354
Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]
High Fidelity **** (2000, John Cusack, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 876
Director Stephen Frears’s amusing and very popular 2000 comedy High Fidelity stars John Cusack as Rob Gordon, the 30-something owner of the Championship Vinyl record shop, who reminisces about his lost loves. It is the slightly […]
My Beautiful Laundrette **** (1985, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 461
Director Stephen Frears’s 1985 heart-warmer raises the spirits. It stars future double-Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who first captured the attention on screen here as Johnny, a gay, reformed racist punk. The Beautiful Laundrette of the title is […]
Dangerous Liaisons ***** (1988, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Keanu Reeves, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 307
Director Stephen Frears’s dazzling 1988 movie of Christopher Hampton’s award-winning London and Broadway hit stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses is scaldingly exciting. You can just feel the sexual heat radiating from it. Based on the […]