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The Vault of Horror ** (1973, Terry-Thomas, Tom Baker, Daniel Massey, Anna Massey, Curt Jurgens, Dawn Addams, Glynis Johns, Denholm Elliott, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 3116

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 chiller brings five more horror tales of the unexpected that make up Amicus’s sixth portmanteau movie. A follow-up to 1972’s Tales from the Crypt, it is written by Amicus producer Milton […]

Nov, 30

Around the World in 80 Days ***½ (1989, Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Julia Nickson, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov) – Classic Movie Review 2454

In director Buzz Kulik’s classy, entertaining 1989 Malta-made miniseries, an ideally cast Pierce Brosnan shines as Jules Verne’s Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg and Eric Idle is a total scene-stealer as his French gentleman’s gentleman Passepartout. […]

May, 04

Angels and Insects *** (1995, Mark Rylance, Patsy Kensit, Kristin Scott Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 1,702

Co-writer/director Philip Haas’s 1995 British drama, written with Belinda Haas, is an intriguing, involving and provocative oddity, based on A S Byatt’s intelligent 1992 novella Morpho Eugenia.  Co-writer/director Philip Haas’s 1995 British drama film, written […]

Sep, 22

The Importance of Being Earnest ***** (2002, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Reese Witherspoon, Frances O’Connor, Anna Massey, Tom Wilkinson, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 1162

Writer-director Oliver Parker’s 2002 film follows up his 1999 success with another Oscar Wilde adaptation, An Ideal Husband. Parker’s film of The Importance of Being Earnest is a marvellous, hilarious, sumptuous and above all fresh […]

May, 01

Peeping Tom **** (1960, Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley) – Classic Movie Review 605

Director Michael Powell’s 1960 colour British psychological horror-thriller shocker Peeping Tom is an eye-opening insider’s look at voyeurism and the mechanics of the film-making process, disguised as a lurid psychological thriller. This nightmarishly disturbing horror movie is […]

Dec, 31

Frenzy **** (1972, Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Bernard Cribbins, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Vivien Merchant, Billie Whitelaw, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 92

Written with great relish and expertise by Anthony Shaffer (author of the play Sleuth and The Wicker Man screenplay) and directed in England in a creative frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock, the 1972 thriller Frenzy is […]

Jul, 26

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