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Ma Vie en Rose **** (1997, Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent) – Classic Movie Review 2557

Co-writer/director Alain Berliner’s brave and extraordinary 1997 Belgian-French-UK movie centres on its heart-warming story about a little seven-year-old boy called Ludovic Fabre (Georges Du Fresne, aged 12) who dreams about being a little girl, troubles […]

Jun, 05

Girlhood [Bande de filles] *** (2014, Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh) – Movie Review

Writer-director Céline Sciamma‘s engrossing French coming-of-age epic tackles the thorny though much-examined issues of race, class and non-conformity, but in a fresh and furious way. Karidja Touré (actually 20 at the time) is remarkable in […]

May, 14

A Simple Twist of Fate *** (1994, Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 2151

Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1994 film of George Eliot’s classic novel Silas Marner comes with a screenplay by its star Steve Martin, who gives it a modern twist. Martin adapts and comes up with a semi-amusing […]

Feb, 03

Tom’s Midnight Garden ***½ (1999, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Joan Plowright, Florence Hoath, Nigel Le Vaillant, , David Bradley, Liz Smith) – Classic Movie Review 1842

Anthony Way stars as Tom Long, a 1950s teenager, sent to live with his childless Aunt Gwen (Greta Scacchi) and Uncle Alan (James Wilby) to avoid contact with his sick brother. Shortly after his arrival, […]

Nov, 15

The Judge *** (2014, Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Billy Bob Thornton ) – Movie Review

Robert Downey Jr stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home for the funeral of his mother. He is reunited with his two brothers (Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong) and his father, […]

Oct, 15

Vanity Fair *** (2004, Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Romola Garai) – Classic Movie Review 1751

Likeable and engaging, director Mira Nair’s 2004 film is a very fair if slightly uninspired stab at filming a difficult novel, plodding relentlessly through the seemingly endless and complex detail and plotlines of William Makepeace […]

Oct, 07

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble *** (1976, John Travolta, Glynnis O’Connor, Diana Hyland) – Classic Movie Review 1730

The young John Travolta (aged 22, playing a teenager) lights up director Randal Kleiser’s excellently handled, very affecting 1976 heart-tugging true story drama as Tod Lubitch, the teenage boy forced to live in the Plastic […]

Oct, 02

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