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Riff-Raff **** (1991, Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy R Coleman, Garrie J Lammin, Ricky Tomlinson) – Classic Movie Review 5011

Director Ken Loach’s prize-laden British comedy stars the then fresh newcomer Robert Carlyle as Stevie, a young Glasgow ex-con who gets a job as a construction worker on a London building site. There he has […]

Feb, 06

Rentadick * (1972, James Booth, Richard Briers, Julie Ege, Donald Sinden, Roy Kinnear, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, John Wells) – Classic Movie Review 4891

Director Jim Clark’s mostly wild and witless, wide-of-the-mark 1972 British crime comedy Rentadick stars an amiable group of experienced farce players and has much broad fun with British national stereotypes. It is certainly to be […]

Jan, 15

The Vision *** (1987, Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick, Eileen Atkins) – Classic Movie Review 4870

Director Norman Stone’s 1987 TV movie stars Dirk Bogarde, who brings his distinctive touch to the part of veteran broadcaster James Marriner, ‘Gentle Jim’, an ex-TV newsman lured into the spider’s web of an evangelical […]

Jan, 09

Porridge [Doing Time] ***½ (1979, Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Peter Vaughan, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Sam Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 4772

Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s funny 1979 film prison comedy Porridge [Doing Time] is a most entertaining, above-par transfer of the much-loved Seventies BBC TV sitcom about the inmates and warders of HM Slade Prison in […]

Dec, 07

A House is Not a Home * (1964, Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Ralph Taeger, Broderick Crawford, Kaye Ballard, Mickey Shaughnessy) – Classic Movie Review 4702

Shelley Winters (Shirley Schrift), so great in A Place in the Sun (1951), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Lolita (1962), has a bad time as legendary Roaring Twenties New York City bordello madam Polly Adler in […]

Nov, 26

The Young Ones [Wonderful to be Young!] ***½ (1961, Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Grey, Richard O’Sullivan, Melvyn Hayes, Gerald Harper, Robertson Hare, Teddy Green) – Classic Movie Review 4641

Director Sidney J Furie’s 1961 British musical The Young Ones stars Cliff Richard as Nicky, the son of a ruthless property tycoon millionaire called Hamilton Black (Robert Morley), who wants to flatten the local youth […]

Nov, 12

Blood Father ** (2016, Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks, Dale Dickey, William H Macy, Miguel Sandoval, Richard Cabral) – Movie Review

Mel Gibson hits the Liam Neeson ‘protect a daughter’ Taken trail as ex-con Link, who reunites with his estranged wayward 17-year old daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty) to protect her from Jonah (Diego Luna) and his drug […]

Oct, 20

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