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Made in Dagenham **** (2010, Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Mays, Kenneth Cranham) – Classic Movie Review 3313

‘Everyone out!’ That’s the cry in the East London suburbs in 1968, a cry you don’t hear very much these days! Sally Hawkins (Golden Globe winner for 2008’s Happy-Go-Lucky) gives a fiery, attractive turn as […]

Feb, 01

X + Y ***½ (2104, Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang) – Movie Review

X + Y = a really rather good spirit-lifting British movie. It is spurred on to win by a lovely performance by Asa Butterfield as Nathan, a socially awkward English teenage maths prodigy who lands a […]

Mar, 11

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

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

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

Godzilla *** (2014, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Strathairn, Juliette Binoche) – Movie Review

The 355-ft fire-breathing Japanese lizard is back, and so is wide-eyed, constantly frowning 5ft 11in Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a US naval officer in San Francisco who goes to Japan to help his troubled scientist dad […]

May, 15

Layer Cake **** (2004, Daniel Craig) – Classic Movie Review 660

Another day, another Brit crime thriller, but this one from 2004 is quite a lot better than most. Daniel Craig stars as a drug dealer, who’s made his pile and is planning to quit the cocaine […]

Jan, 10

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