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À Nous la Liberté ***** (1931, Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France) – Classic Movie Review 9851

Raymond Cordy and Henri Marchand star in writer-director René Clair’s dazzlingly witty 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté [Freedom for Us], in which Louis (Raymond Cordy) escapes from jail and works his way up […]

Jun, 01

Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142

Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]

Oct, 25

Beloved *** (1998, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 5355

Oprah Winfrey gives up the talk show day job to be producer-star of her pet project, a lavish and reverentially handled, but ponderously achieved 1998 film version of Toni Morrison’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved. […]

Apr, 28

Inside I’m Dancing [Rory O’Shea Was Here] **** (2004, James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Movie Review 4357

Director Damien O’Donnell’s funny, life-affirming and heart breaking 2004 movie tale of friendship between two disabled young men is the best Brit film in ages. Rebel Rory O’Shea (James McAvoy) arrives at a drab Dublin residential […]

Sep, 13

The Defiant Ones ****½ (1958, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3424

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s classic liberal 1958 film is a simple, moral tale that works well thanks to the strong writing, the classy photography, the all-round excellent performances, the exciting chase sequences, the crafted production and […]

Feb, 28

Chicken Run ***** (2000, voice of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Tony Haygarth, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton, Phil Daniels, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 1,558

Producer/story-writer/directors Nick Park and Peter Lord’s adorable 2000 Aardman film feature-length animation film Chicken Run stars the voice of Mel Gibson as Rocky Rhodes, the Rhode Island rooster. This lovely, adorable, delightfully funny smash-hit British animated […]

Aug, 17

King Arthur *** (2004, Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley, Mads Mikkelsen, Ioan Gruffudd, Joel Edgerton, Ray Winstone, Hugh Dancy) – Classic Movie Review 954

Director Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 movie stars Clive Owen, who looks glum as an Anglo-Roman Artorius (or King Arthur) in this entertainingly silly Hollywood attempt to prove that the legend actually happened – back in the Dark […]

Mar, 21

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