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Benediction **** (2021, Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels) – Movie Review

Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi lead Terence Davies’s 2021 drama film Benediction, based on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, also starring late actor Julian Sands. The 2021 biographical drama film Benediction is written […]

Mar, 25

The Man with a Cloak *** (1951, Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Leslie Caron, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 11,390

Director Fletcher Markle’s 1951 MGM black and white Gothic noir thriller The Man with a Cloak is a sleekly made, very unusual and involving 19th-century Manhattan murder mystery propelled along with an excellent cast, including […]

Jul, 15

The Barretts of Wimpole Street ** (1957, Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Jean Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 10,420

Director Sidney Franklin’s 1957 colour remake The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a stiff, museum piece of a film, where more exuberance in both the handling and performing is needed. More than 20 years later, […]

Oct, 15

Stevie **** (1978, Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 10,022

The 1978 drama film Stevie is a beautiful, supremely moving character-driven portrait of the British poet Stevie Smith (Glenda Jackson) and of her simple, loving relationship with the ‘lion aunt’ (Mona Washbourne).  Director Robert Enders’s […]

Jul, 09

Lady Caroline Lamb ** (1972, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain) – Classic Movie Review 9969

Distinguished screenwriter Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan’s Daughter) got his chance to direct his wife Sarah Miles in this British 1972 historical romance Lady Caroline Lamb about Lady Caroline Lamb’s brief affair with Lord […]

Jun, 28

The Great McGonagall ** (1975, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9332

Director Joe McGrath’s 1974 comedy The Great McGonagall stars Spike Milligan as the obscure and terrible unemployed 19th-century Scottish poet William McGonagall, married to Mrs McGonagall (Julia Foster), and determined to become Queen Victoria’s poet […]

Feb, 01

Tom & Viv *** (1994, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton, Nickolas Grace) – Classic Movie Review 9027

Director Brian Gilbert’s 1994 British biographical romantic drama Tom & Viv tells the extraordinary story of the doomed marriage of American poet Tom Eliot [T S Eliot] (Willem Dafoe) and the English aristocrat Vivienne Haigh-Wood […]

Oct, 29

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