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Posts Tagged "Ben Whishaw"

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Bright Star *** (2009, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox, Edie Martin, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) – Classic Movie Review 2940

This worthy but dull 2009 fictional romantic biopic is based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. The acting, though, is inspiring. Ben Whishaw […]

Oct, 02

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer **** (2006, Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2939

Director Tom Tykwer’s lovingly crafted 2006 period serial killer movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer isn’t to be sniffed at. Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer’s screenplay makes an involving, often thrilling job of […]

Oct, 02

Lilting **** (2014, Ben Whishaw, Pei-pei Cheng, Andrew Leung, Naomi Christie, Peter Bowles) – Movie Review

Ben Whishaw is perfect and diamond geezer Peter Bowles is lovely in the exquisitely done and very moving drama film Lilting (2014). Lilting (2014) is lovely, exquisitely done and very moving. Get out the hankies, […]

Aug, 08

The Trench *** (1999, Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer, James D’Arcy) – Classic Movie Review 1406

Screenwriter/director William Boyd adapts his own novel for this 1999 First World War wartime film drama in which a platoon of young British soldiers bicker in a tiny 8ft-wide trench in the last 48 hours […]

Jul, 07

Teenage *** (2013) – Movie Review

Writer-director Matt Wolf and Jon Savage’s documentary, comprised of rare archival material, filmed portraits and voices lifted from early 20th-century diary entries, has a good go at providing a back story to the arrival of the teenager […]

Jan, 22

Layer Cake **** (2004, Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Lunghi) – Classic Movie Review 660

Daniel Craig stars as a London-based criminal who wants to quit the cocaine business, in debut director Matthew Vaughn’s better-than-most 2004 British crime film Layer Cake. Another day, another Brit crime thriller, but this one […]

Jan, 10

Cloud Atlas­ ***½ (2012, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Sturgess) – Movie Review

‘Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others.’ Some big guns come out firing on as many cylinders as they know how to access in order to turn […]

Oct, 09

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