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Mary Reilly * (1996, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon, Kathy Staff, Michael Sheen, Glenn Close, Ciarân Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 2787

Much was expected from this strongly cast film of Valerie Martin’s popular novel, but director Stephen Frears’s 1996 British drama is one of his failures. The idea of seeing the old Victorian horror story through […]

Aug, 07

The Others **** (2001, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 1805

A highly impressive Nicole Kidman lights up writer-director Alejandro Amenábar’s really eerie 2001 chiller. She plays a mother trying to care for her two light-sensitive children Anne and Nicholas (Alakina Mann, James Bentley) in a […]

Nov, 05

Taste the Blood of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Ralph Bates, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford) – Classic Movie Review 1735

Director Peter Sasdy’s 1970 horror thriller Taste the Blood of Dracula is the fourth in the famous British Hammer Films Dracula series with Christopher Lee, a watchable follow-up to 1968’s Dracula Has Risen from the […]

Oct, 02

A Little Princess **** (1995, Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 845

Director Alfonso Cuarôn’s 1995 movie is a marvellous remake of the 1911 classic novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden) and the beloved 1939 Shirley Temple […]

Feb, 19

The Royal Tenenbaums **** (2001, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Seymour Cassel, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 609

Gene Hackman won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for his high-energy, funny turn as Royal Tenenbaum, the grand daddy of a very odd, dysfunctional family. After years away, he returns […]

Jan, 02

Gosford Park **** (2001, Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles Dance, Jeremy Northam, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 299

Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for the witty Best Original Screenplay for this civilised 2001 entertainment, based on an idea by its producers, the director Robert Altman and actor Bob Balaban. It plays like a […]

Oct, 19

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