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The Story of Esther Costello *** (1957, Joan Crawford, Heather Sears, Rossano Brazzi, Ron Randell, Lee Patterson, Fay Compton, John Loder, Denis O’Dea, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 3252
Director David Miller’s awkward but very sincere, well-acted and watchable 1957 British drama stars Joan Crawford as rich society lady Margaret Landi, who finds herself coming to the aid of 18-year-old girl Esther Costello (Heather Sears, […]
The Hallow ** (2015, Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Stuart Graham, Gary Lydon) – Movie Review
A London-based conservationist tree surgeon called Adam Hitchens (Joseph Mawle from Game of Thrones) is sent to Ireland to survey an area of forest believed to be hallowed ground by the superstitious local folk. Adam and […]
Brooklyn **** (2015, Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters) – Movie Review
Saoirse Ronan stars as Ellis, a bright young Irish immigrant who arrives in 1950s Brooklyn. She hoves up at old Mrs Julie Walters’s boarding house, gets a department store job and, though initially homesick, soon […]
Gorgo *** (1961, William Sylvester, Bill Travers, Joseph O’Conor, Bruce Seton, Martin Benson, Maurice Kaufmann, Basil Dignam, Barry Keegan) – Classic Movie Review 2887
Director Eugène Lourié’s endearing 1961 British sci-fi horror thriller Gorgo is quite a lot of fun even if it is fairly low on quality or surprises, but it comes with some complex and costly special […]
What Richard Did ***½ (2012, Jack Reynor, Fionn Walton, Gavin Drea, Patrick Gibson, Liana O’Cleirigh, Róisín Murphy) – Movie Review
Jack Reynor stars in his breakout performance as Richard Karlsen, head of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, in director Lenny (Leonard) Abrahamson’s quietly devastating 2012 Irish drama. In the summer between the end […]
The Magdalene Sisters **** (2002, Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone) – Classic Movie Review 2144
Writer-director Peter Mullan’s austere 2002 drama stars Geraldine McEwan, who gives a tour de force as the sadistic Catholic Sister Bridget at a Sixties Irish girls’ institution, a Magdalene Sisters Asylum for young women. There, […]
Odd Man Out ***** (1946, James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 1807
Director Carol Reed’s moody, impeccably crafted 1946 British thriller showcases one of James Mason’s most renowned performances as Johnny McQueen, an IRA Irish nationalist leader gunman who commits a failed mill robbery in Belfast, kills […]