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Posts Tagged "Christopher Eccleston"

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Legend *** (2015, Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton) – Movie Review

Legend offers Tom Hardy an eagerly and exuberantly taken chance for a bravura star turn in twin roles as 1960s identical twin East End gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray (‘We’re talking about being gangsters, that’s […]

Sep, 09

A Price Above Rubies ***½ (1998, Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Julianna Margulies) – Classic Movie Review 2015

In writer-director Boaz Yakin’s unusually intelligent, thought-provoking, complex 1998 drama, Renée Zellweger gives a commendably intense performance as Sonia Horowitz, a wife who feels increasingly isolated from her New York Jewish neighbourhood. She also feels […]

Dec, 30

The Others **** (2001, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 1805

A highly impressive Nicole Kidman lights up writer-director Alejandro Amenábar’s really eerie 2001 chiller. She plays a mother trying to care for her two light-sensitive children Anne and Nicholas (Alakina Mann, James Bentley) in a […]

Nov, 05

Jude *** (1997, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet) – Classic Movie Review 1696

A lugubrious-looking Christopher Eccleston is hugely gloomy in director Michael Winterbottom’s depressingly downbeat 1997 film version of the Thomas Hardy tragic romance yarn Jude the Obscure. Lovestruck stonemason Jude Fawley (Eccleston) pursues his cousin, Sue […]

Sep, 20

Shallow Grave **** (1994, Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 1059

Danny Boyle’s cinema directorial debut Shallow Grave finds shy chartered accountant David (Christopher Eccleston) losing his mind and making the attic his home and surveillance place. He bores holes in the attic floor to spy […]

Apr, 05

Gone in Sixty Seconds ***½ (2000, Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi) – Classic Movie Review 939

Director Dominic Sena’s 2000 action thriller remakes a low-budget cult 1974 movie with a big budget, some flash and zest, and Nicolas Cage starring as legendary master car thief Randall ‘Memphis’ Raines. In Scott Rosenberg’s […]

Mar, 19

Thor: The Dark World **** (2013, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård) – Movie Review

‘I gave you my word, that I would return.’ – Thor. With ads and premieres everywhere, it won’t have escaped your attention that the new superhero tale from Disney-owned Marvel Studios is the sequel to […]

Oct, 29

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