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Weekend **** (2011, Tom Cullen, Chris New) – Classic Movie Review 12,353

Tom Cullen and Chris New star in Andrew Haigh’s impressive 2011 British LGBT romantic drama film Weekend, as two men who enjoy a meaningful brief encounter just before one of them plans to leave the […]

Nov, 28

The Bridges of Madison County **** (1995, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley) – Classic Movie Review 748

Get out a full bumper-sized box of tissues for star-director Clint Eastwood’s cute, bittersweet Sixties-set Brief Encounter-style 1995 romantic weepie The Bridges of Madison County. It is polished, posh and poignant, casting its spell and […]

Jan, 25

Summertime [Summer Madness] ***** (1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, André Morell, Jeremy Spenser) – Classic Movie Review 679

Director David Lean’s 1955 exquisite masterwork is a gloriously unashamed, full-throttled romance, in which Katharine Hepburn plays Jane Hudson, a visiting American spinster who enjoys a summer of chaste love with an old Italian smoothie […]

Jan, 12

Lost in Translation ****½ (2003, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi) – Classic Movie Review 666

Perhaps never better, Bill Murray put in his bid in 2003 for an Oscar as a fading, ageing American movie star who goes to Tokyo to do a whisky ad. Lonely in his hotel, he […]

Jan, 10

Love Tomorrow – Film Review

Cindy Jourdain stars as Eva, a troubled ex-ballet dancer who meets Oriel (Arionel Vargas) a handsome Cuban dancer in London when he follows her out of the Tube system at Camden Town. He’s insistent, but she’s […]

Nov, 05

Brief Encounter ***** (1945, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Cyril Raymond, Joyce Carey, Stanley Holloway, Everley Gregg, Irene Handl, Alfie Bass) – Classic Movie Review 167

‘You’ve been a long way away.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Thank you for coming back to me.’ David Lean’s superb 1945 film of Noël Coward’s famous tearjerker is a much loved, much admired, much enjoyed classic. Taking the […]

Aug, 17

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