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Director Peter K Smith’s 1985 film No Surrender is a tough, dark-shaded comedy from writer Alan Bleasdale, who is after a metaphor for the Irish troubles in his tale of a murky Liverpool nightclub where […]
Charlotte Brontë probably would not have liked director Delbert Mann’s smooth and glossy 1970 American TV version of Jane Eyre, which was released in cinemas worldwide. It is just too smooth and glossy. It won […]
Director Ken Russell’s first feature French Dressing (1964) is a British satirical seaside farce with Marisa Mell as a French starlet taken up by Gormleigh-on-Sea’s deckchair man and lady reporter as the local kind of […]
Writer-director Montgomery Tully’s 1949 British drama Boys in Brown is a sincere though none too realistic British Borstal reform-school melodrama, with gem-shop raider Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough), Bill Foster (Jimmy Hanley), Alf ‘Sparrow’ Thompson (Michael […]
Stanley Baker finds a strong vehicle in Hammer Films’ unusually energetic, atmospheric and swift-moving 1959 vintage crime thriller Hell Is a City, atmospherically shot largely on exteriors in Manchester, and topped of with an exciting, […]
George MacKay stars as the much troubled Tim, who is both a good kid and a criminal to survive in writer-director Duane Hopkins’s northern British thriller drama. The film is bravely grim and bleak but it is […]
Director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s 1993 triumph is an awesomely meticulous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-prize-winning novel. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson give the most incredibly impressive, subtle, miniaturist performances as Lord Darlington’s desperately […]
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