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Bank Holiday **** (1938, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, John Lodge, Wally Patch, Kathleen Harrison, René Ray, Linden Travers) – Classic Movie Review 6972

Director Carol Reed’s 1938 British Gainsborough Pictures black and white movie Bank Holiday is a highly engaging, expertly done, trailblazing documentary-style comedy drama about assorted London folk on a trip to sunny seaside town Bexborough […]

Apr, 27

He Who Rides a Tiger ** (1965, Tom Bell, Judi Dench, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 6450

Director Charles Crichton’s 1965 British independent film thriller stars Tom Bell as burglar Peter Rayston, who comes out of jail for the eighth time and has a little love with the easily-led social worker Joanne (Judi […]

Dec, 22

Die, Monster, Die! [Monster of Terror] ** (1965, Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 6145

‘It COULD happen! It MAY happen! It MIGHT happen! to YOU!’ Really? I don’t think so! Debut director Daniel Haller’s atmospheric and well acted but slow-moving horror movie is a loose adaptation of the H […]

Oct, 27

Do Not Disturb ** (1965, Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Sergio Fantoni, Hermione Baddeley, Reginald Gardiner, Maura McGiveney) – Classic Movie Review 6078

Director Ralph Levy’s fairly daft but bright enough 1965 farcical comedy of gentle misunderstandings successfully teams Doris Day with Rod Taylor. Based on William Fairchild’s play Some Other Love, it is a frothy marital mix-ups comedy […]

Oct, 11

Goodbye Christopher Robin * (2017, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Will Tilston, Stephen Campbell Moore, Kelly Macdonald) – Movie Review 

Simon Curtis’s real-life biopic drama about children’s author A A Milne and his creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin Milne means well but it is largely miscalculated, misjudged, mismanaged and a quite frightful […]

Oct, 01

Went the Day Well? ***** (1942, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 5993

Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1943 British classic for Ealing Studios stars Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton and Basil Sydney. It is a most compelling film of Graham Greene’s famous wartime warning fantasy story (The Lieutenant […]

Aug, 29

Anita & Me [Anita and Me] ** (2002, Chandeep Uppal, Anna Brewster, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Max Beesley, Kathy Burke, Kabir Bedi, Lynn Redgrave, Omid Djalili) – Classic Movie Review 5887

Director Metin Hüseyin’s amiable but weak and stereotypical British 2002 comedy is set in the early Seventies in an English Midlands mining village, where the 12-year-old heroine, Meena Kumar (Chandeep Uppal) has a crush on her […]

Aug, 09

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