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Under Suspicion **½ (2000, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci, Thomas Jane) – Classic Movie Review 3702

Director Stephen Hopkins’s intriguing 2000 thriller stars Gene Hackman as Henry Hearst, a smug lawyer in a bad toupee, who is suspected of a girl’s murder, and becomes involved in a series of mind games with the […]

May, 12

The King’s Speech ***** (2010, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 3,311

A whole film about stuttering? Well, put that way, maybe not, thank you. The King’s Speech is, well, rotten. But not the movie, his actual speech. The movie’s astounding. So absolutely, yes please! It’s the […]

Feb, 01

Julius Caesar **** (1953, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 2,383

Joseph L Mankiewicz’s fine 1953 Hollywood film of Shakespeare’s Roman play Julius Caesar assembles a grand line-up of real actors in John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern and Edmond O’Brien. Writer-director Joseph L […]

Apr, 12

Juno and the Paycock *** (1929, Edward Chapman, Sara Allgood, Maire O’Neill, Kathleen O’Regan, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 2290

Director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville make rather heavy weather of their struggle with their 1929 movie adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s doomy successful classic play about a hard-pressed family living in the slums of Dublin […]

Mar, 21

Nick of Time *** (1995, Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1629

Director John Badham’s enjoyable 1995 thriller stars Johnny Depp, who profitably forsakes his usual oddball image for a straight part as an average American Joe in this highly improbable, but entertaining thriller that unfolds, unusually, […]

Sep, 03

Thursday’s Children **** (1954, dir Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1411

Director Lindsay Anderson’s rousing 21-minute 1954 British short documentary film about the education of deaf children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent, won the Academy Award in 1955 for Best Documentary Short Subject. […]

Jul, 09

An Awfully Big Adventure ** (1995, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Peter Firth, Alun Armstrong, Prunella Scales, Rita Tushingham, Nicola Pagett) – Classic Movie Review 1248

Hugh Grant and his director Mike Newell reunite in 1995 for An Awfully Big Adventure after their worldwide hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) for a much less winning outing – more of a […]

May, 24

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