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High Hopes **** (1988, Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Heather Tobias, Philip Jackson, Lesley Manville, David Bamber, Jason Watkins) – Classic Movie Review 11,228

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s incisive 1988 satire on life in Eighties Britain, High Hopes, centres on three London comic couples: socialist Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Philip Davis), a bearded despatch rider and his tree-planting lover who […]

May, 21

Flashbacks of a Fool ***** (2008, Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Claire Forlani, Felicity Jones, Emilia Fox, Eve, Jodhi May, Helen McCrory, Miriam Karlin) – Classic Movie Review 11,105

Daniel Craig bravely stars in what may be his finest piece of film acting in the haunting, heartbreaking 2008 British drama film Flashbacks of a Fool playing a fading, ageing British actor called Joe Scot […]

Apr, 17

This Is My Street **½ (1964, Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, Avice Landone, Meredith Edwards, Madge Ryan, John Hurt, Mike Pratt) – Classic Movie Review 10,906

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1964 British black and white social realism drama This Is My Street is a fascinating if low-powered slice of South London life starring Ian Hendry as Harry King, a randy, shiftless lodger […]

Feb, 12

Say Hello to Yesterday * (1971, Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting, Evelyn Laye) – Classic Movie Review 10,843

Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1971 British romance Say Hello to Yesterday stars Leonard Whiting, the former Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, as a pretty but thoroughly unpleasant young seducer pursuing an affluent, middle-aged housewife […]

Jan, 28

Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] *** (1956, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau, Giani Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 10,684

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1956 French-Italian film Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] is a rather straightforward sentimental love story melodrama with just the odd touch of the moral issues and no surrealism from Buñuel […]

Dec, 19

King David * (1985, Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige, Denis Quilley, Cherie Lunghi) – Classic Movie Review 10,680

Director Bruce Beresford’s 1985 King David is an unsuccessful attempt to retell the tale of David and Bathsheba, in a biblical film that did not do Richard Gere’s career any good at all. Gere and […]

Dec, 18

Irreconcilable Differences *** (1984, Ryan O’Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 10,385

Director Charles Shyer’s 1984 Irreconcilable Differences is an attractive, sweet-and-sour romantic comedy, with Ryan O’Neal and Shelley Long playing Albert and Lucy, a self-centred Hollywood couple sued for divorce by their precocious 10-year-old daughter Casey […]

Oct, 05

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