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All or Nothing **** (2002, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 1873
Writer-director Mike Leigh’s 2002 gem stars his regular actor collaborator, British national treasure Timothy Spall, who is brilliant as Phil Bassett, a London cabbie wallowing in a sea of troubles and bad fares. Director Leigh’s […]
Vera Drake ***** (2004, Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 1872
Award-winning Imelda Staunton is a revelation as Vera Drake, a cheery Fifties London cleaner, who has a secret life ‘helping young girls out’ as an abortionist. Performing an abortion is illegal in England at the […]
Secrets & Lies ***** (1996, Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste) – Classic Movie Review 721
Writer-director Mike Leigh’s much-lauded film was the triumphant winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 1996. Brenda Blethyn hugely impresses in a Bafta, Cannes and Golden Globe-winning performance as Cynthia Rose Purley, a lonely and […]
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 […]
Spike Island **** (2012, Elliott Tittensor, Nico Mirallegro, Jordan Murphy, Lesley Manville, Chris Coghill, Emilia Clarke, Adam Long, Oliver Heald) – Movie Review
It’s May 1990, and a rising young indie band of five teen boys set off to desolate but rockin’ Spike Island in Cheshire to snag tickets to see the legendary Stone Roses concert. Elliott Tittensor […]
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