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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 […]

Nov, 05

Prick Up Your Ears **** (1987, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters, Frances Barber, Lindsay Duncan) – Classic Movie Review 2976

Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]

Oct, 10

Calendar Girls ****½ (2003, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie) – Classic Movie Review 1959

Keep a date with Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Linda Bassett as the real-life Yorkshire Women’s Institute ladies who — oh so demurely! — go the full monty for […]

Dec, 14

Paddington **** (2014, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman) – Movie Review

Michael Bond‘s beloved talking bear Paddington finds his right voice in Ben Whishaw and his right adoptive parents in Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins. They play the kindly middle-class parents Mr and Mrs Brown, who discover […]

Nov, 26

Effie Gray *** (2014, Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Greg Wise) – Movie Review

Emma Thompson won an Oscar as screenwriter for Sense and Sensibility in 1995 and now two decades on pens her first original screenplay that puts the marriage of esteemed Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie […]

Oct, 09

Mamma Mia! **** (2008, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters) – Classic Movie Review 532

Director Phyllida Lloyd turns in an infectiously exuberant movie of the fABBAlous British stage musical in 2008. Anyone simply wondering what all the fuss is about or who cares little for the music of ABBA doesn’t […]

Dec, 16

One Chance *** (2013, James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney) – Movie Review

Putting away the abrasive side of his personality, James Corden is surprising likeable in this uplifting, funny, delightfully feel-good Brit biopic. He gives an extremely appealing, often showstopping turn as Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, a […]

Oct, 24

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