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Posts Tagged "Emma Thompson"
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Nanny McPhee **** (2005, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Celia Imrie, Imelda Staunton) – Classic Movie Review 1834
Emma Thompson and Colin Firth star in director Kirk Jones’s delightful, magical 2005 family fantasy comedy film Nanny McPhee, with expert performances and a super wicked sense of humour. Thompson stars as a Mary Poppins-style […]
Effie Gray *** (2014, Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Greg Wise) – Movie Review
Emma Thompson won an Oscar as screenwriter for Sense and Sensibility in 1995 and now two decades on pens her first original screenplay that puts the marriage of esteemed Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie […]
Carrington *** ( Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington) – Classic Movie Review 1708
Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1995 drama provides another peep behind the scenes of English literature dissecting the odd, platonic but deep relationship between the sexually confused painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and gay writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce), […]
The Love Punch *** (2013, Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Tuppence Middleton) – Movie Review
A reasonably likeable, totally watchable 2013 Britcom sitcom is on the menu as Emma Thompson stars as a brisk and capable middle-class English woman called Kate, who is happily divorced from her cheating lawyer ex-husband […]
Primary Colors **** (1998, John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 928
Producer-director Mike Nichols’s 1998 film stars John Travolta, who enjoys himself enormously as US presidential candidate Jack Stanton, a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House, with his savvy, ambitious wife […]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban **** (2004, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Gary Oldman) – Classic Movie Review 514
Michael Gambon has task of taking over from the late Richard Harris as the Hogwarts headmaster, Professor Albus Dumbledore, in the 2004 second sequel film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The kids all […]
The Remains of the Day ***** (1993, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve, James Fox, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 451
Director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s 1993 triumph is an awesomely meticulous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-prize-winning novel. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson give the most incredibly impressive, subtle, miniaturist performances as Lord Darlington’s desperately […]