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Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey? ** (2014, Martin Clunes, Marc Wootton, Catherine Tate, Celia Imrie, Jason Watkins) – Movie Review

It’s amazing that they’ve managed to find new material to squeeze a trilogy out of what was a thin idea in the first place back in 2009. But the third of the Nativity film series […]

May, 10

Love Affair ***** (1939, Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya) – Classic Movie Review 2327

Director Leo McCarey’s heart-stoppingly gorgeous 1939 romance stars Charles Boyer as the rich, suave Gallic charmer French playboy Michel Marnet and Irene Dunne as the Big Apple lady Terry McKay he meets aboard an ocean liner […]

Mar, 29

White Christmas **** (1954, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen) – Classic Movie Review 2,207

  The entertaining musical film White Christmas was 1954’s most successful film and is now arguably the most famous Christmas movie of them all. Director Michael Curtiz’s entertaining 1954 musical White Christmas is a remake […]

Feb, 23

In the Bleak Midwinter **** (1995, Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Joan Collins, Jennifer Saunders, Celia Imrie) – Classic Movie Review 2185

Writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s 1995 movie is a beautifully realised, funny, perceptive comedy drama look at the British thespian game. In Branagh’s story, a resting, out of work actor called Joe Harper (Michael Maloney) battles to stage a […]

Feb, 18

Father Christmas **** (1991, voice of Mel Smith) – Classic Movie Review 1971

The late Mel Smith provides the voice of the titular Father Christmas in director Dave Unwin’s British 1991 seasonal animation joy, based on the Raymond Briggs stories. Santa, the busiest man in snow business, turns his […]

Dec, 17

A Christmas Story **** (1983, Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1962

Some people put this up there as their all-time favourite Christmas movie. Certainly director Bob Clark’s 1983 Christmas classic is a thoroughly enjoyable, sweetly beguiling movie of reminiscences of a boy growing up in an […]

Dec, 16

Still Alice **** (2014, Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth) – Movie Review

Still Alice is a devastating heart-tugger and guaranteed weepie. Julianne Moore is brilliant in a demanding and challenging role as Dr Alice Howland, a 50-year-old renowned linguistics professor struck down with rare congenital, early-onset Alzheimer’s. […]

Dec, 10

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