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The Missionary *** (1982, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Michael Hordern, Denholm Elliott, Graham Crowden, Phoebe Nicholls, Roland Culver, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 10,017

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1982 film The Missionary stars, and is written and produced by, Michael Palin, and finds room for a treasure trove of Brit performers. Palin’s The Missionary is a fairly funny comedy, in […]

Jul, 08

Journeyman *** (2017, Paddy Considine, Jodie Whittaker, Anthony Welsh, Tony Pitts, Paul Popplewell) – Movie Review

You’ve got to hand it to Paddy Considine. He is hugely ambitious as writer/ director/ star of this gruelling, hard-hitting medical and personal drama. Considine stars as ageing world middleweight boxing champion Matty Burton (Paddy Considine), […]

Oct, 20

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde *** (1971, Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim) – Classic Movie Review 2891

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1971 Hammer horror movie is the third of three Hammer Films adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, following The Ugly Duckling (1959) […]

Sep, 08

Shaun the Sheep Movie **** (2015) – Movie Review

Try and hard as you like, it’s impossible to resist this incredibly sweet, charming, inventive and amusing stop-motion animated caper from Nick Park and the guys at Aardman Animations, of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken […]

Feb, 04

People I Know **** (2002, Al Pacino, Téa Leoni, Kim Basinger, Ryan O’Neal, Richard Schiff, Bill Nunn, Robert Klein, Mark Webber, Rex Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1158

Director Daniel Algrant’s 2002 film stars a just brilliant Al Pacino, who scalds the screen as Eli Wurman, a burnt-out, over-stretched Manhattan PR press agent trying to arrange a charity function, struggling with actors and the […]

Apr, 29

Spellbound ***** (1945, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G Carroll, Michael Chekhov, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 101

‘This is love! Complete…reckless…violent,’ screams the poster as Alfred Hitchcock embarks in 1945 on another delicious tale of obsession and trauma. Spellbound scored six Oscar nominations and won one, for Best Music, Scoring of a […]

Jul, 28

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