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Jude *** (1997, Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet) – Classic Movie Review 1696

A lugubrious-looking Christopher Eccleston is hugely gloomy in director Michael Winterbottom’s depressingly downbeat 1997 film version of the Thomas Hardy tragic romance yarn Jude the Obscure. Lovestruck stonemason Jude Fawley (Eccleston) pursues his cousin, Sue […]

Sep, 20

Iris **** (2001, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville) – Classic Movie Review 1695

Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent are heartbreaking in co-writer/director Richard Eyre’s sterling 2001 biopic of acclaimed British author Iris Murdoch. The film chronicles her life from her time at Oxford, where she met the love […]

Sep, 20

Hideous Kinky *** (1998, Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui) – Classic Movie Review 1694

Director Gilles MacKinnon’s 1998 drama stars an excellent Kate Winslet, who impresses as Julia, an English hippy mother who in 1972 travels with her two young daughters, 7 and 5, to Morocco. There they have […]

Sep, 20

Quills **** (2000, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 1432

Director Philip Kaufman’s real-life period drama stars Geoffrey Rush, the 1997 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Shine. He relishes a great, lip-smacking turn as the infamous Marquis de Sade, the French writer, jailed in a Parisian lunatic […]

Jul, 16

Hamlet *** (1996, Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie) – Classic Movie Review 1295

Writer-director-star Kenneth Branagh’s long, lively, faithful and intelligent 1996 version of the Shakespeare play is lit up with rousing performances from a lovely array of memorable actors. It’s a respectful, rewarding experience with outstanding work […]

Jun, 06

Enigma ***½ (2001, Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam, Saffron Burrows) – Classic Movie Review 1187

Dougray Scott stars as code-cracker Tom Jericho, who teams up with eager cipher clerk Hester Wallace (Kate Winslet) to investigate the disappearance of a lovely spy message decoder called Claire (Saffron Burrows). Director Michael Apted’s 2001 release is […]

May, 09

Divergent **½ (2014, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jai Courtney) – Movie Review

Shailene Woodley stars as Tris who learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in to any one group in a futuristic Chicago. It’s 110 years after a war, and society is divided into five factions that represent a […]

Apr, 04

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