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Made in Dagenham **** (2010, Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Mays, Kenneth Cranham) – Classic Movie Review 3313

‘Everyone out!’ That’s the cry in the East London suburbs in 1968, a cry you don’t hear very much these days! Sally Hawkins (Golden Globe winner for 2008’s Happy-Go-Lucky) gives a fiery, attractive turn as […]

Feb, 01

Absolute Beginners *** (1986, Eddie O’Connell, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, Ray Davies, James Fox) Classic Movie Review 3257

Director Julien Temple’s 1986 ambitious attempt to adapt Colin MacInnes’s 1959 realistic novel about youth and racism in London into a big-budget fantasy musical fails to hit enough of the right notes. However it does […]

Jan, 11

XX/XY ** (2002, Mark Ruffalo, Kathleen Robertson, Maya Stange, Petra Wright) – Classic Movie Review 3162

Writer-director Austin Chick’s 2002 romantic drama XX/XY stars Mark Ruffalo, whose character Coles becomes involved with college students Thea and Sam (Kathleen Robertson and Maya Stange) in a three-way relationship that spirals out of control. There […]

Dec, 17

The Night Before *** (2015, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Jillian Bell, Michael Shannon, Lizzy Caplan, Mindy Kaling) – Movie Review

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie star as boyhood friends Ethan, Isaac and Chris, who decide their this year’s Christmas Eve annual reunion night of debauchery and hilarity is to be their last. Well, look, they’re 30 […]

Dec, 04

Down with Love ** (2003, Ewan McGregor, Renée Zellweger, Tony Randall, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Poulson) – Classic Move Review 3029

Director Peyton Reed’s 2003 retro soufflé movie tries to pair Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger as a romantic team, with mixed, mostly disappointing results. McGregor and Zellweger try to make a stylish Sixties-type romantic comedy but […]

Nov, 02

Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent [Anne and Muriel] **** (1971, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Jean-Pierre Léaud) – Classic Movie Review 3014

François Truffaut’s tantalising period romantic drama finds him returning to the love triangle theme he earlier profitably mined in Jules et Jim (1963) and La Peau Douce (1964). It tells the story of a French […]

Oct, 29

Prick Up Your Ears **** (1987, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters, Frances Barber, Lindsay Duncan) – Classic Movie Review 2976

Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]

Oct, 10

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