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Dad’s Army **½ (2016, Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Daniel Mays, Blake Harrison, Bill Paterson) – Movie Review

There’s a World War Two German spy at work in Walmington-on-Sea and the old boys of the Home Guard are entranced by lovely visiting female journalist Rose Winters (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in this unexpected sitcom revival movie […]

Feb, 02

45 Years **** (2015, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James) – Movie Review

Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is brilliant in its very English way, all intense, repressed and minimalist, quite Pinteresque really. Certainly it’s brilliantly acted: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay won the Best Actress and Best Actor Awards at the […]

Aug, 19

The Legend of Barney Thomson ** (2015, Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen, James Cosmo) – Movie Review

In his directing debut, Robert Carlyle is struggling both as actor and director as Barney Thomson, a boring Glasgow barber who reluctantly finds he becomes a serial killer. Carlyle’s odd mix of kindly and terrifying gets a thorough […]

Jul, 23

Nicholas Nickleby **** (2002, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2719

Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]

Jul, 18

Doctor Zhivago ***** (1965, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness, Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 2692

Director David Lean’s lovingly made 1965 movie version of Boris Pasternak’s great Russian novel stars Omar Sharif as the Moscow doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago, who is embroiled in the horrors of the Russian revolution and […]

Jul, 12

King and Country **** (1964, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 2532

Director Joseph Losey’s 1964 film stars Tom Courtenay as Private Hamp, a slightly dim, uncomprehending First World War soldier who walks shell shocked away from the rat-infested Passchendaele trenches and is arrested for desertion. [Spoiler […]

May, 28

King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422

George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]

Apr, 24

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