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Director Jane Campion’s triumphant 1993 romantic drama is probably her best, most famous, most successful movie. On a $7 million cost, it earned $40 million in the US alone. It won three Oscars, for Best Actress […]
Director Michael Apted’s sterling 1980 biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter stars Sissy Spacek, who won the 1981 Best Actress Oscar and the Golden Globe for her role as backwoods girl Loretta Lynn, who becomes a legendary […]
Director William Wyler’s double Oscar-winning 1938 romantic drama Jezebel stars Bette Davis, who grabs one of the best chances of her glorious career by the scruff of its neck and triumphs. In many ways this is Davis […]
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 […]
The beloved 1964 five Oscar-winning Walt Disney family musical film Mary Poppins is still an adorable treat. Julie Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar, Dick Van Dyke does the worst ever cockney accent, and David […]
In 1999 Julia Roberts grabs hold of her best role in ages – and a chance to show her acting skills as well as her legs and cleavage – as the sassy real-life heroine of […]
Written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman, and directed by John Madden, the delightful, carefree 1998 fantasy romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love is jam packed with amusing puns and clever play-on-words. It is spun around […]