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Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]
Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie run away with the acting honours in co-writer / director Armando Iannucci’s misguided reimagining of the Charles Dickens classic novel as a raucous romp, with Dev Patel working hard, earnestly […]
Director Christine Edzard’s rich 1987 film Little Dorrit is a deservedly praised, huge-canvas two-part film of Charles Dickens’s romantic drama/ social satire about good Samaritan Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi), who returns to England after 20 […]
The resounding performances from the great British thespians of the day give director Delbert Mann’s atmospheric 1970 British TV movie version of the Charles Dickens classic novel David Copperfield a big lift. Robin Phillips is […]
I’ve just opened my Time Out and I’m in shock. They gave The Man Who Invented Christmas FOUR STARS! So I’ve got to say it: ‘Bah, humbug!’ The Man Who Invented Christmas is a well meaning […]
Writer-director Noel Langley conscientiously works Charles Dickens’s novel over as a jolly 1952 British comedy film. It offers a big fat star part as Mr Pickwick that might have been tailor-made in the first place […]
Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]