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All-American actor Charlton Heston (born plain John Carter) dons the British sleuth deerstalker and gets to play Sherlock Holmes for a surprisingly successful Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outing. It is tensely and atmospherically directed by […]
Director Henry Selick’s gorgeous 1996 British children’s movie stars Paul Terry as the titular James Trotter, a lonely nine-year-old orphan who is given a bag of glowing green seeds and grows a giant peach housing […]
Bookended by A Room with a View (1985) and Howards End (1992), the 1987 middle film in director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s E M Forster trilogy is adapted from the gay author’s most […]
‘Love means never having to say I do.’ – Ad line. Directed by Mike Newell and written by Richard Curtis in 1994, this sensational British romantic comedy was a worldwide hit and the first British […]
Written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman, and directed by John Madden, the delightful, carefree 1998 fantasy romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love is jam packed with amusing puns and clever play-on-words. It is spun around […]
James Ivory’s 1985 triple-Oscar-winning classic film A Room with a View formed the basis of Helena Bonham Carter’s long career and is the best thing that Julian Sands ever did. James Ivory’s 1985 triple-Oscar-winning classic […]
The winner of eight Oscars, Milos Forman’s 1984 triumph Amadeus is a magnificent film of lavish and unique brilliance, with a marvellous cast and brilliant director working at their peak. F Murray Abraham won the […]
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