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Cathy Come Home ***** (1966, Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 8380

Director Ken Loach’s realistic black and white classic 1966 BBC TV drama The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home is a searing indictment of the social services in the British welfare system of the Sixties, focusing on […]

Apr, 19

Pathfinder [Ofelas] ***** (1987, Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Helgi Skúlason, Henrik H Buljo) – Classic Movie Review 7755

Writer-director Nils Gaup’s 1988 Pathfinder [Ofelas] is a thrilling and hypnotic Norwegian adventure film, a mix of violent action and Lapp legend. It is the 1000 AD-set tale of a boy called Aigin (Mikkel Gaup, the […]

Nov, 04

State Fair *** (1933, Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers) – Classic Movie Review 2195

Director Henry King’s likeable and appealing 1933 romantic comedy drama provides a pleasantly pungent odour of 30s Americana, based on Philip Strong’s novel, brought to life in vivid star performances. Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers […]

Feb, 21

Wild **** (2014, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann) – Movie Review

Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed, who undertakes a 1,100-mile solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail to try to recover from her recent catastrophes. In flashbacks, she seems to have gone to pieces in an orgy of […]

Jan, 07

The Stag *** (2013, Andrew Scott, Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Michael Legge) – Movie Review

A bachelor stag party weekend in the great outdoors takes some strange but not entirely unexpected detours. Surprisingly, maybe, co-writer/director John Butler’s film comedy is very likeable and amusing, well acted by a good cast, […]

Mar, 14

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