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Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645
Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]
Hot Fuzz **** (2007, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Billie Whitelaw, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 3314
The comedy team from Shaun of the Dead (2004) delivers the big laughs again with this triumphant spoof thriller that imagines British police such as the like of those shown in TV’s Heartbeat are filmed […]
The Young Victoria **** (2009, Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Julian Glover, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, Harriet Walter) – Classic Movie Review 3295
Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend are perfect as the young Queen Victoria and her prince consort Albert in this silver-spoon, velvet-plush, beautifully staged version of the little known story of the iron lady’s struggle for […]
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 […]
Nicholas Nickleby **** (2002, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2719
Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]
Around the World in 80 Days *** (2004, Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cécile De France, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 2453
Director Frank Coraci’s 2004 remake of producer Mike Todd’s 1956 five-Oscar-winning original stars a reasonably well-cast Steve Coogan. He makes a fair stab at his big star role as Jules Verne’s 1899-set Victorian inventor and […]
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ** (1987, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker, Mariel Hemingway, Marc McClure) – Classic Movie Review 2242
Christopher Reeve is back for one last time as The Man of Steel in director Sidney J Furie’s 1987 fourth and final episode in the series with a story and screenplay he co-wrote about Superman tackling […]