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The Snapper **** (1993, Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe) Classic Movie Review 9662
A close-knit Dublin family adjusts to the news that the eldest daughter, 20-year old Sharon Curley, is pregnant but will not name the father, in director Stephen Frears’s 1993 BBC Screen Two film The Snapper. […]
Little Nellie Kelly ** (1940, Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 9202
Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 MGM black and white family musical comedy Little Nellie Kelly is a forgotten, or at any rate overlooked, Judy Garland movie, although it was a hit at the time, earning MGM […]
Girl with Green Eyes **** (1964, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave) Classic Movie Review 8839
Rita Tushingham stars as Kate, a plain lonely girl with green eyes, who is sharing digs in Dublin’s fair city with her vivacious friend Baba (Lynn Redgrave), when she meets and falls for middle-aged, married […]
Blown Away *** (1994, Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 7677
Director Stephen Hopkins’s 1994 action crime thriller Blown Away is an involving, suspenseful and intelligent thriller but at the same time it is uncomfortable and exploitative feeling. Jeff Bridges stars as Boston bomb squad man […]
Song for a Raggy Boy *** (2003, Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, John Travers, Chris Newman, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7587
The harsh 2003 drama Song for a Raggy Boy stars Aidan Quinn as William Franklin, who lands a teaching job at a bleak and severe Catholic boys’ Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland. Soulful […]
The Trials of Oscar Wilde **** (1960, Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, John Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Nigel Patrick) – 7237
Director Ken Hughes’s sterling 1960 biopic The Trials of Oscar Wilde is one of two films released at the same time about the dramatist, who was hounded, persecuted and martyred for his homosexuality. It was beaten […]
Darby O’Gill and the Little People **** (1959, Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O’Dea, Kieron Moore, Estelle Winwood, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O’Dea) – Classic Movie Review 6916
Disney’s superlative 1959 children’s film Darby O’Gill and the Little People is an often inspired mix of warm Irish charm and sly Gaelic hokum. Cubby Broccoli saw and liked Sean Connery in this movie and […]