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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Bed & Board [Domicile Conjugale] **** (1970, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer) – Classic Movie Review 2589
Bed and Board [Domicile Conjugale] is often highly amusing, perceptive and very touching, though overall perhaps slightly less so than its 1968 predecessor Stolen Kisses (Baisers Volés). Jean-Pierre Léaud again stars as the twentysomething French hero, […]
Unbroken **** (2014, Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Luke Treadaway, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review
Unbroken is a gruelling, harrowing and upsetting true-life story of unimaginably appalling wartime suffering. But the film is brilliantly done and another feather in the cap of our little marvel Jack O’Connell. O’Connell hits the […]
You Only Live Twice **** (1967, Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Karin Dor) – Classic Movie Review 1025
Director Lewis Gilbert’s spectacular 1967 spy adventure You Only Live Twice is the fifth Bond movie. It boasts the astounding Japanese volcano that opens up to reveal an underground space station and has 007 Sean […]
Empire of the Sun ***** (1987, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 833
Director Steven Spielberg borrows from the style of his film-making hero David Lean, paying reverential homage to the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for his sweeping 1987 war epic […]
Topsy-Turvy **** (1999, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 719
What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]
The Railway Man *** (2013, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård) – Movie Review
Based on his autobiography, this is the upsetting and honourable true story about Englishman Eric Lomax, one of thousands of Allied prisoners working like slaves on the construction of the Thai/Burma ‘Death Railway’ during World War […]
From Up on Poppy Hill *** – Film Review
As a group of Japanese teens in Yokohama try to save their school’s antique clubhouse from demolition by a modernising capitalist in preparation for the Olympic Games in 1964, the wide-eyed heroine Umi is recruited […]