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Entertaining and pleasant, but just because of Edgar-Jones, MacKay and Shaw and the expected English countryside and Georgian splendor.
The rest of the cast feels miscast and forgettable, all wooden acting, lack of chemistry, and often just odd.
I have not read the book, nor watched any of the previous screen versions, so I can't say if it's better or worse.
Sense and Sensibility, Georgia Oakley
7/10
An uplifting fairytale with a heart and lots of seagulls.
That's what I needed.
The Incomer, Louis Paxton
8/10
The Grade II* listed Barton Road Swing Bridge that crosses the Manchester Ship Canal in Greater Manchester.
The spot where I was standing to capture this photograph was used as a location in one of my favourite films from the early 1960's 'A Taste of Honey' which starred Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin and Dora Bryan.
The film was part of the 'British New Wave' cultural movement, sometimes referred to as kitchen sink realism and an adaptation of the 1958 play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney.
Many other locations from around Salford, very much still a Lowry landscape at the time, feature in the film.
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Danger and suspense and mystery and bewilderment.
Dead fish and rust and boots and a tiny boat.
Slow. Experimental? (Slightly) disappointing?
Rose of Nevada, Mark Jenkin
6/10
A good love story is always good.
But a good love story with rough sex, lockets, motorbikes, a dog, and a funeral is even better.
Pillion, Harry Lighton
8/10
I Swear is probably the most honest movie about disabilities I've watched in years.
It's funny, tragic, brutal, and hopeful.
And the actors are excellent.
I Swear, Kirk Jones
8/10
SORRY WE MISSED YOU - Ken Loach - 2019 - ★★★★
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Ken Loach is as powerful as ever, captivating and moving audiences with his humanity. It's a harsh film, with no mercy for its characters (perhaps a little too harsh this time around?). In any case, it's a remarkable film. #movie #film #britishmovie #filmphotography #cinema #KenLoach
Intense, raw, brutal, with a glimmer of hope.
Awesome cast.
Great music.
Steve, Tim Mielants
8/10
James Hyde - The Very Thought of You released in 2025
a Trinidadian RAF fighter faces impossible odds for freedom and love.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33760110/
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The Salt Path is a beautiful, low-key, and poignant drama. Anderson and Isaacs are excellent, the scenery is gorgeous, and even the music is good.
The Salt Path, Marianne Elliott
8/10
Act of Murder (1964), a British Edgar Wallace B-movie, involves a romantic triangle and from the start the plot twists come thick and fast. A psychological thriller with lots of paranoia and a pleasingly hard-edged nasty streak. Great stuff.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/07/act-of-murder-1964.html
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We Shall See, a 1964 British Edgar Wallace thriller with some nasty emotional betrayals and twisted relationships. At the centre is a woman who thinks everyone hates her. Turns out to be more interesting and quirky than you expect. Good film.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/we-shall-see-1964.html
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Sidney J. Furie's The Snake Woman, an ultracheap 1961 UK horror movie that is better than you might expect. A girl is believed to be an evil serpent-woman. A beautiful exotic snake-woman. Well-made atmospheric film.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-snake-woman-1961.html
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Wrong Number is a 1959 British heist thriller involving train and armoured car robberies and a beautiful, glamorous, sexy and dangerous woman. And of course phone calls. A neat plot, terrific acting, well executed heist sequences. Good stuff.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2019/05/wrong-number-1959.html
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#NowWatching : Quatermass II (1957) La Marque - Val Guest, Brian Donlevy, Hammer Film Productions #sciencefiction #hammer #britishmovie #scifi #cinema #film #movie
#NowWatching Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1969 Directed by Terence Fisher with Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson #britishmovie #horror #hammer #movie #cinema
#NowWatching : Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, HAMMER #britishmovie #hammer #petercushing #frankenstein #movie #cinema
#NowWatching : Murder by Decree (1979), Sherlock Holmes, Jack The Ripper, Arthur Conan Doyle Directed by Bob Clark with Christopher Plummer, James Mason #sherlockholmes #britishmovie #jacktheripper #conandoyle #movie #cinema #film #murder #mystery #Shadowz
#NowWatching The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Val Guest, Brian Donlevy #Hammer #sciencefiction #Horror #scifi #quatermass #cinema #film #britishmovie
The other great Carol Reed-Graham Greene collaboration, a year before The Third Man, was The Fallen Idol (1948). A story of growing up, of trust, of lies and of secrets. Lies and secrets can be well-intentioned but have bad results. Great film.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-fallen-idol-1948.html
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The Spider and the Fly is a 1949 British crime thriller directed by Robert Hamer. Cop Maubert obsessively hunts master criminal Philippe and hopes to use Philippe's mistress to trap him. Quite good but with an out-of-left-field ending.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-spider-and-fly-1949.html
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#Noirvember #filmnoir Assassin for Hire (1951) is a low-budget British crime thriller with a definite film noir flavour. Sydney Tafler is superb as a hitman with some depth and the plot has some nasty twists. An excellent well-crafted B noir.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2016/09/assassin-for-hire-1951.html
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Piccadilly, a stylish 1929 British silent melodrama. Pretty Chinese girl Shosho gets her chance as a dancer and becomes the toast of the town. Pure romantic melodrama, let down by the ending. Anna May Wong gives her best performance as Shosho.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/10/piccadilly-1929.html
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Terence Fisher's Kill Me Tomorrow (1957), an OK cheap crime B-movie about a hardbitten reporter who's wrecked his career with booze and self-pity. Now he has to convince the cops that he's a murderer. Lois Maxwell plays a feisty girl reporter.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/09/kill-me-tomorrow-1957.html
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Wrong Number (1959) is a 1959 British heist thriller. It has a neat little plot, terrific acting and just the right amount of humour. The vital clue is a phone call, a wrong number that might be unlucky for the thieves. A good solid B-movie.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2019/05/wrong-number-1959.html
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The Verdict (1964) is a British Edgar Wallace B-movie. It concerns a gangster and a dubious visa which is a clue to a murder 20 years earlier. Well-made, well-acted, fast-moving, witty and clever with an intricate plot that works perfectly.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-verdict-1964.html
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Madonna of the Seven Moons is a 1945 British Gainsborough melodrama but melodrama is hardly an adequate word to describe this truly bizarre film. It's beyond mere melodrama. Over-the-top, outrageously excessive, a delight from start to finish.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2017/08/madonna-of-seven-moons-1945.html
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David Lean’s celebrated screen love story Brief Encounter (1945). Two people meet at a railway station and fall in love but they're both already married to other people. In the 1940s an insurmountable obstacle. Still packs an emotional punch.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/brief-encounter-1945.html
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The main problem with Carol Reed's NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940) starring Margaret Lockwood is that you're going to compare it to THE LADY VANISHES with which it has a lot in common. Not as good as Hitchcock's film but a decent train thriller.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2014/12/night-train-to-munich-1940.html
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Ricochet (1963) is one of the many Edgar Wallace crime thrillers from England’s Merton Park Studios and it's a typical entry in that cycle. In other words it’s an excellent little B-movie. A solicitor decides to blackmail his own wife.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/ricochet-1963.html
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