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Three Wise Fools ** (1946, Margaret O’Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 12,275

Director Edward Buzzell’s 1946 MGM black and white fantasy film Three Wise Fools stars Margaret O’Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Edward Arnold, and Thomas Mitchell. This sentimental tale of orphaned young girl Sheila O’Monahan (Margaret […]

Aug, 10

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ** (2019, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson, Sam Riley, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ed Skrein, Robert Lindsay) – Movie Review

Angelina Jolie looks magnificent as Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) but it’s a no-acting-required type of role, with her dialogue spare and sparce. As the movie is a CGI fest, they could just as well […]

Oct, 25

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1999, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Sophie Marceau, Christian Bale, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 7839

‘Love makes fools of us all.’ Writer-producer-director Michael Hoffman brings William Shakespeare’s most magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream to an unexpected time and place – Tuscany at the end of the 19th century. Amid […]

Nov, 27

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1968, Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Nicholas Selby, David Warner, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Judi Dench, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 7837

The Royal Shakespeare Company brings its Peter Hall-directed London stage production of the ever-popular William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the screen with practised success and delightful performances from a tip-top Sixties cast, […]

Nov, 27

La Cage aux Folles *** (1978, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier) – Classic Movie Review 7228

Director Édouard Molinaro’s rather rancid, risqué 1978 French farce La Cage aux Folles about an elderly gay couple, one of whom is the flamboyant drag queen Albin (Michel Serrault), at the St Tropez night-club run […]

Jun, 27

FairyTale: A True Story **** (1997, Peter O’Toole, Paul McGann, Phoebe Nicolls, Harvey Keitel, Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl) – Classic Movie Review 6290

This 1997 British drama is a beautifully produced, lovingly handled period movie, from Charles Sturridge, the director of the 1981 TV mini-series Brideshead Revisited. In 1917, Elsie Wright (Florence Hoath) and Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl) […]

Nov, 22

Photographing Fairies ** (1997, Toby Stephens, Ben Kingsley, Edward Hardwicke, Frances Barber, Ben Kingsley, Emily Woof, Philip Davis) – Classic Movie Review 6289

A love story that extends into the next world, a spot of sleuthing with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Edward Hardwicke), and Steven Spielberg-style supernatural creatures flying around the English countryside. This 1997 British fantasy mystery […]

Nov, 22

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