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Charley’s Aunt **** (1941, Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison) – Classic Movie Review 9288

OMG ! Jack Benny in drag! Director Archie Mayo’s effervescent 1941 black and white cross dressing comedy Charley’s Aunt [Charley’s American Aunt] stars the notable ensemble team of Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne […]

Jan, 21

Tolkien *** (2019, Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Harry Gilby, Pam Ferris, Laura Donnelly, Colm Meaney) – Movie Review

Tolkien (2019) is a curate’s egg of a biographical drama film, with good scenes mixing uncomfortably with not such good ones. It stays interesting, though never fascinating, and this story of the young life of […]

May, 05

Privileged *** (1982, Robert Woolley, Diana Katis, Hugh Grant, Victoria Studd, James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Mark Williams) – Classic Movie Review 5976

Director Michael Hoffman’s 1982 British film tells an old-fashioned, 1960s-style story of an egocentric actor and is an odd choice in 1982 for a feature film made by an amateur cast and crew from Oxford […]

Aug, 27

Oxford Blues * (1984, Rob Lowe, Julian Sands, Michael Gough, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Gail Strickland, Alan Howard, Julian Firth, Cary Elwes) – So Bad It’s Good 14

Blues is right. The 1984 So Bad It’s Good movie Oxford Blues is likely to give you them. The young Rob Lowe is an unlikely Oxford student, but he is effectively slimy in a tweak […]

Aug, 11

The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1332

‘Moderation is a vastly over-rated virtue.’ – Miss Lilly Moffat. Director Irving Rapper directs Bette Davis in the 1945 drama The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher dismayed by the […]

Jun, 17

The Quiet Ones (Jared Harris, Sam Claflin) – Movie Review

Jared Harris battles a weak screenplay and underpowered direction as an arrogant Oxford University physics professor who assembles a small team of students to conduct an experiment on a teenage girl (Olivia Cooke) with psychiatric problems, […]

Apr, 09

A Chump at Oxford **** (1940, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Peter Cushing) – Classic Movie Review 965

Director Alfred J Goulding’s 1940 movie A Chump at Oxford is a thoroughly likeable, appealing and enjoyable vintage comedy from movie greats Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, even if it is arguably maybe a mere fraction less […]

Mar, 22

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