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War Horse **** (2011, Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Toby Kebbell, David Kross, Peter Mullan) – Classic Movie Review 3048
Steven Spielberg’s solidly crafted 2011 British-American war drama War Horse is a guaranteed heart-tugger, with a decent screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis adapting Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel set around World War One. […]
Regression ** (2015, Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis) – Movie Review
A father (David Dencik) walks into a police station and confesses to a crime he has no memory of committing – abusing his daughter (Emma Watson). Writer-director Alejandro Amenábar’s ambitious and unsettling thinking person’s thriller tackles urgent […]
Macbeth ** (2015, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, David Thewlis, Jack Reynor, Elizabeth Debicki) – Movie Review
Australian director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) throws the baby out with bathwater in his imaginative, freewheeling attempt to turn the Scottish Play into what amounts to a brutal Western movie. Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie and Todd Louiso fail to […]
Queen and Country **** (2014, Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E Grant, Pat Shortt, Sinéad Cusack) – Movie Review
Writer-director John Boorman’s sequel to his semi-autobiographical charmer Hope and Glory (1987) is an old-fashioned, civilised pleasure. Callum Turner stars as the grown up 19-year-old Bill Rohan who is drafted into the army, does basic training […]
Stonehearst Asylum *** (2014, Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review
Most entertaining old-style horror movie, set in the creepy asylum of the title, with an exceptionally plush production and highly amusing tongue-in-cheek turns from Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine and David Thewlis. Taking it all very seriously, […]
DragonHeart **** (1996, Dennis Quaid, Julie Christie, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, voice of Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 2214
Director Rob Cohen’s 1996 is Arthurian legend adventure film doesn’t quite star Sean Connery – only his inimitable voice and a computer-generated dragon based on his movements. It really is a performance that an actor […]
The Theory of Everything ***** (2014, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Maxine Peake, Tom Prior) – Movie Review
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones give superb, award-worthy performances as the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane in director James Marsh’s engrossing, emotionally wrenching film of their relationship. Redmayne deservedly triumphed by winning Best Actor at […]