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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
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Youth [Fang hua] **** (2017, Xuan Huang, Miao Miao, Caiyu Yang, Elane Zhong) – Movie Review
Xuan Huang stars as Feng Liu, Caiyu Yang as Dingding Lin and Elane Zhong as Suizi in director Xiaogang Feng’s haunting and stirring 2017 romantic drama based around the lives of the young members of a Chinese Military Cultural Troupe in the […]
The Big Night *** (1951, John Barrymore Jr, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring, Howard St John, Dorothy Comingore) – Classic Movie Review 5840
John Barrymore Jr [aka John Drew Barrymore] makes something of his first starring role as a stereotypical Fifties misunderstood teenager, in that era of crazy mixed-up kids, in Joseph Losey’s 1951 American film noir The Big […]
The Rainbow *** (1989, Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings, Glenda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 5454
Co-writer/ producer/ director Ken Russell’s provides his 1989 film prequel to his own Women in Love (1969), in which he adapts D H Lawrence’s tale of the Brangwen family to focus on the intellectual and sexual […]
Handsome Devil ***½ (2016, Fionn O’Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott) – Movie Review
Award-winning writer/director John Butler (The Stag) returns with a charming, crowd-pleasing story of the unlikely friendship between two Irish boarding school roommates – gay loner outsider Ned (Fionn O’Shea) and new boy macho star rugby player […]
The Last of the High Kings [Summer Fling] ***½ (1996, Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O’Hara, Christina Ricci, Colm Meany, Stephen Rea, Lorraine Pilkington, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 4666
Co-writer/ director David Keating’s 1996 Irish comedy drama little winner is appealing and intelligent, with a beautifully crafted script by Keating and Gabriel Byrne. This surprisingly sweet Irish tale is lit up with a cute […]
Le Souffle au Coeur [Dearest Love] [Murmur of the Heart] **** (1971, Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi) – Classic Movie Review 4505
Writer-director Louis Malle’s tender 1971 middle-class coming-of-age comedy of manners is the end of the first Indochina War. The film poses a rather delicate question: will the open-minded young teenage boy Laurent (Benoît Ferreux), who has the […]
Hunt for the Wilderpeople **** (2016, Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata) – Movie Review
Julian Dennison and Sam Neill have great rapport as a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush, prompting a national manhunt. Defiant young city kid Ricky Baker and cantankerous […]