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In a majestic stroke of casting, Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly form a brilliant double act as Queen Victoria and John Brown, her loyal Scottish Highland gillie, summoned down from Balmoral to walk the […]
Judi Dench and Maggie Smith light up the screen as Thirties Cornish sisters, Ursula and Janet, who take in a foreign lad (Spanish-German star Daniel Brühl) they find washed up on the nearby beach. As […]
Directed Stephen Frears’s highly entertaining 2005 comedy drama tells the engaging true story of the woman who ran a pioneering nudie theatre in London and kept the show open all through the WW2 Blitz. Judi […]
A marvellous cast is assembled for director Gillies MacKinnon’s treasurable, heart-warming 2000 made-for-TV comedy drama, starring Judi Dench, Cleo Laine, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron. It is […]
Director Charles Sturridge, who directed 11 episodes of the 1981 classic TV mini-series Brideshead Revisited, tackles another of Evelyn Waugh’s novels for the big screen in 1988. This sleek and satisfying film version of Waugh’s 1934 A […]
In an entertaining odd-couple double act, Dev Patel and Maggie Smith have the best of what’s going in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as their characters Sonny Kapoor and Muriel Donnelly pursue their expansionist dreams […]
Director Kenneth Branagh’s gritty 1989 film version of the play by William Shakespeare is a labour of love and a tour de force. Branagh, in his directorial debut, received Oscar nominations for Best Actor and […]