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Writer-director Humphrey Jennings’s wonderfully sensitive, realistic and moving 1943 documentary Fires Were Started about a London fire unit’s 24-hour day during the German air-raid bombings of winter 1940 elevates mundane detail to sublime significance and […]
Director Ken Hughes’s 1974 The Internecine Project is a clever but heartless British-made thriller, with James Coburn enjoying himself as Professor Robert Elliot, an ambitious business tycoon who tries to erase evidence of his criminal […]
Keira Knightley is well cast and on excellent form in Official Secrets (2019) as British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun, who leaked to the British press a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying […]
Throwing herself into the 2019 movie star biopic Judy to the max, Renée Zellweger gives an impressively showy, over-twitchy, mannered performance as Judy Garland, who comes in London in the winter of 1968 to perform […]
Writer-director Malcolm Mowbray’s 1998 comedy The Revengers’ Comedies [Sweet Revenge] stars Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Martin Clunes, Steve Coogan, Anita Dobson, John Wood, Liz Smith, Charlotte Coleman and Adrian […]
Director Dick Clement’s 1968 spy comedy Otley is an amiable and fairly funny, if a bit clumsy and broad, Ealing Studios-style Sixties spoof thriller, eager to please in sending up James Bondage and swinging London. […]
Director Tim Whelan’s delightfully quaint 1938 British black and white showbiz fairy tale film St Martin’s Lane [Sidewalks of London] stars Charles Laughton as an ageing street entertainer (or busker) called Charles Staggers, scraping a […]