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We of the Never Never *** (1982, Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, John Jarratt) – Classic Movie Review 10,841

Director Igor Auzins’s 1982 Australian biographical drama film We of the Never Never stars Angela Punch McGregor, who gives a fine, subtle, layered performance as an Aussie town lass, Jeannie Gunn, who goes to live with […]

Jan, 28

Fanny Lye Deliver’d **** (2019, Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds) – Movie Review

Writer-director Thomas Clay’s labour of love Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019) is a thinking person’s horror thriller set in Cromwell’s England on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. You don’t get many thinking person’s horror […]

Oct, 12

Diary of a Mad Housewife **** (1970, Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress) – Classic Movie Review 8728

Director Frank Perry’s 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife stars Richard Benjamin as the greedy, egotistical, abusive lawyer Jonathan Balser, who repels his put-upon housewife Tina (Carrie Snodgress), who has a fling with big-headed writer […]

Jul, 18

Enough * (2002, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Noah Wyle, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5885

Enough already! Jennifer Lopez follows Mariah Carey (Glitter) and Britney Spears (Crossroads) to the video dump bin with director Michael Apted’s tatty and inept 2002 revenge thriller. If, as the poster says, everyone has a […]

Aug, 09

The Gift ***½ (2000, Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Michael Jeter, Giovanni Ribisi, Kim Dickens, Gary Cole, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 4792

Keanu Reeves grabs his chance to show his bad side and to do a spot of acting, which he does quite impressively. In this one he plays a really unpleasant piece of work called Donnie […]

Dec, 18

The Silent Storm ** (2014, Damian Lewis, Andrea Riseborough, Ross Anderson) – Movie Review

Writer-director Corinna McFarlane’s romantic drama is her directorial debut and stars Andrea Riseborough as Aislin, who finds herself living and working on a remote Scottish island both with her abusive and crazy fire-and-brimstone minister husband Balor (Damian Lewis) […]

May, 18

East Is East **** (1999, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry) – Classic Movie Review 1042

Director Damien O’Donnell’s 1999 Film Four movie proved a very big popular hit in the UK. Om Puri brings a tragic dimension to what is basically a sitcom about a traditional Seventies Pakistani father who […]

Apr, 02

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