Jonathon Dabell takes a look at Quartet directed by Dustin Hoffman and starring Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay and Billy Connolly.
Currently released on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Star of some of the most radical and trail-blazing films of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s – and still a bankable character actor throughout the ‘90s and noughties – Dustin Hoffman finally turns his hand to directing with this adaptation of a Ronald Harwood play.
Quartet is... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on April 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Fitzcarraldo starring Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale.
The Contenders
1982 proves another year of bona fide cinematic gems, and the task of choosing one film greater than the rest is fraught with difficulty. Dustin Hoffman stars in the wonderful gender-bending comedy Tootsie; Harrison Ford pursues rogue replicants in the visually sumptuous Blade Runner; Arnold Schwarzenegger avenges... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on April 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
With the dust well and truly settled after awards season, FMV Magazine’s Simon Collings asks if Daniel Day-Lewis is the greatest actor of all time?
As Daniel Day-Lewis stepped up to collect his third Best Actor award at this years Oscars, one might assume that his status as the greatest actor of all time was now complete. This record-breaking feat did put him ahead of the likes of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in terms of trophy... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Yorkshire Tales continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton.
In December 1926, the queen of crime fiction, Agatha Christie, vanished for almost two weeks, provoking a massive manhunt and a frenzy of press activity (speculating that she had perhaps been murdered or committed suicide). To this day, the full truth of her peculiar disappearance remains a mystery. In this 1979 film... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at The Godfather: Part II starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
The Contenders
1974 basks in fine movies… as ever, the quest to choose a winner sees many worthy contenders relegated to joint second-place. World cinema is headed by a trio of excellent films: Akira Kurosawa’s Russian epic Dersu Uzala, Robert Bresson’s bloody Arthurian masterpiece Lancelot Du Lac, and Werner Herzog’s... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Yorkshire Tales continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at The Full Monty starring Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy.
Sometimes the timing of a film’s release is so accidentally perfect that it captures the mood of the public and becomes a hit. Such a film is The Full Monty. Made on a meagre budget of £3 million, this small Sheffield-set comedy-drama went to achieve unprecedented commercial and critical success. It became the highest grossing film... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on January 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Bonnie and Clyde starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
The Contenders
Fifty Shades Of Cinema arrives at 1967 and, as ever, the candidates for Film Of The Year prove very tricky to separate. Potential ‘top dogs’ include Robert Aldrich’s muscular war epic The Dirty Dozen; moving inter-racial marriage drama Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner; Stuart Rosenberg’s fantastic chain... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Jonathon Dabell reviews Rod Lurie’s remake of Straws Dogs, starring James Marsden and Kate Bosworth.
Currently available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
The early ‘70s saw a number of films which pushed the envelope in terms of the extremes that could be shown on screen. Until then, the Production Code had existed to “protect” audiences from the disturbing, the depraved and the downright disgusting… but when it was abandoned in 1968 in favour of the... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
FMV Magazine’s Simon Collings takes a look at the unforgettable scenes he considers worthy of being named the Top 5 Movie ‘Showdowns.’
Cinema can offer up many great moments on the big screen. Whether it’s an intense car-chase or an explosive shoot-out, the one sequence which grabs the most attention, and has the most impact upon a gripped audience, is the ‘showdown’ between two rival characters. This doesn’t necessarily have to... Read More
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