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A Question of Attribution **** (1991, James Fox, Prunella Scales, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9270

‘Awfully able man, that’s the tragedy of it.’ A Question of Attribution (1991) is a careful and opulent transfer to film by director John Schlesinger of Alan Bennett’s witty and wise one-act play, with most […]

Jan, 16

An Englishman Abroad **** (1983, Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 9269

Alan Bennett’s sharply witty screenplay for An Englishman Abroad (1983) is taken from the actress Coral Browne’s anecdote about how she met notorious spy traitor Guy Burgess in an Old Vic theatre exchange tour of […]

Jan, 16

The Emperor and the Assassin [Jing Ke ci Qin Wang] **** (1998, Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Li Xuejian) – Classic Movie Review 9178

Director Chen Kaige’s dazzling, rivetingly compelling, exquisitely made 1998 Chinese period drama The Emperor and the Assassin [Jing Ke ci Qin Wang] is set in the 3rd century BC and chronicles the efforts of an […]

Dec, 21

The Falcon and the Snowman **** (1985, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, David Suchet, Lori Singer, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 9154

Outstanding performances from Timothy Hutton as aloof young CIA man Christopher Boyce and Sean Penn as his amoral, drug-pusher buddy Daulton Lee light up director John Schlesinger’s taut, intelligent 1985 US thriller The Falcon and […]

Dec, 14

Some Girls Do * (1969, Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Loncar) – Classic Movie Review 9130

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1969 comedy action adventure thriller Some Girls Do is the mostly tedious sequel to Deadlier than the Male, in which Richard Johnson returns as Sapper’s spy hero character Hugh Bulldog Drummond, who […]

Dec, 05

Charlie’s Angels * (2019, Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska) – Movie Review

Charlie’s Angels (2019) is empty-headed adventure comedy hokum, with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska and Elizabeth Banks all pleasant presences and working hard enough but to little avail. They are chasing after some ludicrous […]

Dec, 03

Eye of the Needle *** (1981, Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Stephen MacKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8843

Director Richard Marquand’s 1981 British wartime romantic adventure thriller film Eye of the Needle stars Donald Sutherland, who is on best menacing form as Herr Faber, the deadly Nazi agent who discovers a ruse by […]

Aug, 19

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