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Mrs Doubtfire **** (1993, Robin Williams, Sally Field) – Classic Movie Review 1538

Director Chris Columbus’s much-loved 1993 drag comedy showcases a brilliant tour-de-force performance by Robin Williams as a bitterly divorced actor Daniel Hillard, who disguises himself as an elderly Scottish housekeeper to spend time with his three lovely […]

Aug, 12

Grey Owl **** (1999, Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Graham Greene, Renée Asherson, Stephanie Cole) – Classic Movie Review 1446

Pierce Brosnan is first-rate as a Native American imposter in director Richard Attenborough’s good-hearted, unfairly overlooked 1999 adventure and true story biopic. Writer William Nicholson’s screenplay makes a really good, fascinating thing out of the unusual story […]

Jul, 18

The Tailor of Panama *** (2001, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 1439

Co-writer/director John Boorman’s 2001 thriller The Tailor of Panama stars Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a British spy in Panama who employs the services of a well-connected Cockney tailor (Geoffrey Rush) to relay sensitive information […]

Jul, 17

The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300

Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]

Jun, 07

The Love Punch *** (2013, Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Tuppence Middleton) – Movie Review

A reasonably likeable, totally watchable 2013 Britcom sitcom is on the menu as Emma Thompson stars as a brisk and capable middle-class English woman called Kate, who is happily divorced from her cheating lawyer ex-husband […]

Apr, 17

A Long Way Down *** (2014, Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul) – Movie Review

The stars of Need for Speed, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots, reunite for this well-meaning, good-natured but rather depressing little drama based on Nick Hornby’s novel. It would be depressing, wouldn’t it? It’s about suicide. The […]

Mar, 20

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

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