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Felicia’s Journey ** (1999, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 1317

Director Atom Egoyan’s 1999 psycho-thriller tells the rather depressing and sordid little tale of a lonely middle-aged catering manager named Joe Hilditch (Bob Hoskins), who picks up and befriends an Irish teenage girl called Felicia (Elaine […]

Jun, 13

Belle **** (2013, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid) – Movie Review

Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Dido Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy officer, brought as a child to England by her father Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), who leaves her in the […]

Jun, 11

Elizabeth **** (1998, Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush) – Classic Movie Review 1310

Director Shekhar Kapur’s splendid 1998 historical thriller stars Cate Blanchett, ageing and maturing convincingly through a long reign in a scaldingly exciting performance as the steely Queen Elizabeth I, crowned Queen at 25. Winning the […]

Jun, 08

East Is East **** (1999, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry) – Classic Movie Review 1042

Director Damien O’Donnell’s 1999 Film Four movie proved a very big popular hit in the UK. Om Puri brings a tragic dimension to what is basically a sitcom about a traditional Seventies Pakistani father who […]

Apr, 02

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror *** (1942, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 989

The 1942 mystery thriller film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is the first of Universal Pictures’ contemporary Holmes series of 12 B-movies. It strangely mixes Arthur Conan Doyle’s story His Last Bow with […]

Mar, 25

Bean *** (1997, Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, John Mills, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Galecki, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Larry Drake, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 791

Rowan Atkinson scored a super-sized hit in 1997 with this nutty, big-hearted big-screen version of his popular TV show (1990-95). It cost $22million and grossed $182million worldwide, though only $45million of that was in the US. […]

Feb, 02

Ministry of Fear **** (1944, Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 759

This thoroughly enjoyable film noir thriller was made in 1944 by the great Viennese director Fritz Lang, who probably knew as little about its source author as about England. But he did knew a lot […]

Jan, 27

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