If you want (need?) two hours of carefree, unfussy, and happily predictable entertainment, Bridget Jones MATB is your movie.
You will cry a little, you will laugh a little, you know the characters, and there are no surprises.
Bridget Jones: mad about the boy, Micheal Morris
7/10
The characters are flat, the story is sketchy, and the actors not at their best.
Was Weetabix really necessary?
We live in time, John Crowley
6/10
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
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
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
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
One Anglophile’s Take on This Is Spinal Tap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N63XSUpe-0o
This is Spinal Tap, which is probably the best movie about rock music ever made. If you want to know why, all you need to do is look below.
How They Made It
In 1978, Rob Reiner created a pilot for a sketch comedy called The TV Show
10 Interesting Facts about the Film Master and Commander
If you’re a fan of nautical adventures, you’ve probably seen “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” the epic film based on the novels by Patrick O’Brian. Directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany, the film is set during the Napoleonic Wars and
One Anglophile’s Take on The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (and other shorts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RdncisZ_QA
As I write this, there's a new prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory out in theaters. I have yet to actually see that film (for health-related reasons), but I found a
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
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
One Anglophile’s Take on The Lion in Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKoYHKpCSc4
As I write this, it's December, only a few days until Christmas. And for the past couple weeks, I've been watching quite a few Christmas movies. Not the sort of cookie-cutter movies Hallmark and other companies keep churning out. I'
Ten Interesting Facts about the Film Willow
Having succeeded in science-fiction and supernatural adventure, in 1988 Lucasfilm turned its attention to fantasy. The film Willow featured the titular protagonist saddled with the responsibility of protecting a baby that was destined to bring down an evil queen. Starring a relatively unknown Warwick Da
Ten Interesting Facts about Peter Cushing
Perhaps one of the most underrated actors of the 20th Century, Peter Cushing is mostly regarded for his role as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars: A New Hope. However, to horror fans, he is an absolute legend for playing Abraham Van Helsing and Victor Frankenstein in several Hammer Studios movies from the 1950s
#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
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
Ten Interesting Facts about Sir Alec Guinness
Con Man, Spymaster, and Jedi Sir Alec Guinness took on many unforgettable roles over his career as an actor. Guinness made a name for himself early in his acting career by starring in several Ealing Studios comedy films and showed what a dramatic powerhouse he could be in 1956’s The Bridge
Ten Interesting Facts about Emma Thompson
Whether you know her as a regular in Richard Curtis films, her classics roles, or more off-the-wall characters, chances are good that you have seen a film starring Emma Thompson. Thompson has had a long and illustrious career in comedy and drama that started as a member of the Cambridge Footlights
https://anglotopia.net/british-entertainment/celebrities/ten-interesting-facts-about-emma-thompson/
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
Say cheese! Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers at 30 – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum #WallaceAndGromit #Filmstodon #Films #Movies #Animation #Aardman #AardmanAnimation #BritishMovies #BritishFilms #Bristol
