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The Dressmaker **** (1988, Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 12,098

Stand by for acting fireworks! Director Jim O’Brien’s 1988 British drama film The Dressmaker is set in England during the Second World War, and stars Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, and Pete […]

May, 05

Uncensored ** (1942, Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones) – Classic Movie Review 11,876

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1942 British World War Two wartime film Uncensored is based on the 1937 novel by Oscar Millard, is set in occupied Belgium, and stars Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert and Griffith Jones. André Delange […]

Jan, 23

Great Guns *** (1941, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 9439

Director Monty [Montague] Banks’s 1941 black and white wartime comedy Great Guns stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, trying only partly successfully to revamp their career with a new studio (20th Century Fox), as soft, […]

Feb, 28

The Sea Shall Not Have Them *** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Redgrave, Anthony Steel, Nigel Patrick, Bonar Colleano, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 7317

Co-writer/ director Lewis Gilbert’s commendably stiff-lipped 1954 British black and white film drama The Sea Shall Not Have Them is based on the 1953 novel by John Harris, with a screenplay by Lewis Gilbert and Vernon Harris. […]

Jul, 20

Ensign Pulver ** (1964, Robert Walker Jr, Burl Ives, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 5883

Producer-director Joshua Logan’s 1964 comedy sequel stars Robert Walker Jr as Ensign Pulver, but alas he is not up to stepping into the Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon’s shoes in the original role in […]

Aug, 08

In This Corner of the World [Kono sekai no katasumi ni] **** (2016, voice of Rena Nounen) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Sunao Katabuchi’s extraordinary 2016 anime animation is based on a Manga by Fumiyo Kono. Rena Nounen [Non] provides the voice of Japanese heroine Suzu, who enters into an arranged marriage at the age of 18 in the […]

Aug, 01

The Howards of Virginia * (1940, Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 5714

Producer-director Frank Lloyd’s 1940 Columbia Pictures epic historical romantic drama is set during the American War of Independence. It is astonishing that an American film studio would set about to attack the British people at […]

Jul, 05

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