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Les Misérables ★★★½ (2012, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne) – Classic Movie Review 3786

  In this brilliantly produced, visually stunning, astonishingly lavish movie of the incredibly long-running stage hit, a hugely impressive Hugh Jackman sings his big Aussie heart out as a saintly French sinner, Jean Valjean, jailed […]

May, 29

Alice in Wonderland *** (2010, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway) – Classic Movie Review 3715

Tim Burton’s sweet and nice 2010 Disney movie is a pleasant plod through English literature, aimed particularly at teenaged girls and their mothers. It is pleasing and lovely to look at but disappointingly mild, bland […]

May, 17

The King’s Speech ***** (2010, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 3,311

A whole film about stuttering? Well, put that way, maybe not, thank you. The King’s Speech is, well, rotten. But not the movie, his actual speech. The movie’s astounding. So absolutely, yes please! It’s the […]

Feb, 01

Suffragette ***½ (2015, Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

It’s taken 100 years for a film about the Suffragette movement to reach the cinema screen. So, better make the most of it, now it’s here. We might have hoped for a biopic of the main […]

Oct, 07

Corpse Bride **** (2005, voice of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman) – Classic Movie Review 2,930

The deliciously entertaining 2005 animated fantasy musical feature film Corpse Bride comes from quirky genius Tim Burton. The deliciously entertaining 2005 animated fantasy musical feature film Corpse Bride comes from quirky genius Tim Burton. It’s […]

Sep, 28

Where Angels Fear to Tread *** (1991, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 2642

Director Charles Sturridge, maker of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (the 1981 mini-series) and A Handful of Dust (1988), challenges the Ismail Merchant- James Ivory team head on here with an E M Forster adaptation in […]

Jun, 26

Cinderella *** (2015, Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Ben Chaplin, Derek Jacobi, Stellan Skarsgård, Helena Bonham Carter) – Movie Review

Disney remakes its classic 1950 animated feature as director Kenneth Branagh’s very likeable, traditional and romantic if rather dull and old-fashioned live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale about Cinderella, the orphaned servant step-daughter of the Wicked Stepmother, […]

Mar, 05

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