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Still Crazy **** (1998, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail) – Classic Movie Review 1696

Director Brian Gibson’s 1998 rock comedy is a hilarious, poignant hoot. It is a simple but great idea for a movie, brilliantly carried out, with a delicious screenplay by veteran TV comedy experts Dick Clement and Ian La […]

Sep, 21

Chicken Run ***** (2000, voice of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Tony Haygarth, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton, Phil Daniels, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 1,558

Producer/story-writer/directors Nick Park and Peter Lord’s adorable 2000 Aardman film feature-length animation film Chicken Run stars the voice of Mel Gibson as Rocky Rhodes, the Rhode Island rooster. This lovely, adorable, delightfully funny smash-hit British animated […]

Aug, 17

The Love Punch *** (2013, Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Tuppence Middleton) – Movie Review

A reasonably likeable, totally watchable 2013 Britcom sitcom is on the menu as Emma Thompson stars as a brisk and capable middle-class English woman called Kate, who is happily divorced from her cheating lawyer ex-husband […]

Apr, 17

Secrets & Lies ***** (1996, Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste) – Classic Movie Review 721

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s much-lauded film was the triumphant winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 1996. Brenda Blethyn hugely impresses in a Bafta, Cannes and Golden Globe-winning performance as Cynthia Rose Purley, a lonely and […]

Jan, 19

Topsy-Turvy **** (1999, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 719

What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]

Jan, 19

Vanilla Sky *** (2001, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 613

Tom Cruise’s fans are in for a bit of a shock. He’s disfigured and masked for much of this arty, romantic 2001 mystery movie that’s just as posh and smart but even duller than his […]

Jan, 02

The Wisdom of Crocodiles [Immortality] **** (1998, Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall, Jack Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 381

Written by Paul Hoffman and directed by Po-Chih Leong, the deliciously sleek, creepy and romantic 1998 vampire thriller The Wisdom of Crocodiles [Immortality] is set in contemporary London. There the handsome scoundrel and seducer, Steven […]

Nov, 09

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