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The Second Mother [Que Horas Ela Volta?] **** (2015, Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli) – Movie Review
Writer-director Anna Muylaert’s funny social drama is a joy throughout. There’s graffiti on a wall just down the road form the cinema where I saw The Second Mother. It says something profoundly banal and banally profound: […]
Jane Eyre *** (1996, William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, Joan Plowright, Richard Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 2671
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 classic novel is rather flat, un-dynamic and un-vibrant. Although the film is highly polished and has several redeeming features, including Charlotte Gainsbourg’s stellar performance as Jane […]
The Black Cat ***½ (1941, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2505
Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and Bela Lugosi raise the hairs on the back of the neck in the spooky and amusing 1941 comedy-mystery horror movie The Black Cat. Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi and […]
Far from the Madding Crowd *** (2015, Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge) – Movie Review
Bathsheba Everdene is in love with three blokes – well, sort of, and can’t make up her mid about which one, if any she fancies settling down with, Far from the Madding Crowd in Dorset. It’s the […]
The Farmer’s Wife *** (1928, Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill) – Classic Movie Review 1,334
Alfred Hitchcock’s seventh movie The Farmer’s Wife is this modestly engaging 1928 silent romantic comedy film of the Eden Phillpotts hit stage play about grumpy widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who seeks a new […]
The Time Machine *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones) – Classic Movie Review 662
Guy Pearce stars as haunted-looking Victorian scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen who, after his wife is killed, travels in his machine through time in search of her. Remaking the much-loved 1960 version by George Pal, The […]
Under Capricorn **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 452
‘Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense’. Yes, the 1949 British historical thriller Under Capricorn is business as usual from Alfred Hitchcock, but with a little bit of a twist. It is not […]