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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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Peeping Tom (1960), the serial killer/voyeurism movie that wrecked director Michael Powell's career. A superb movie that remains disturbing.

Like Hitchcock's Psycho (from the same year) it pushed the edge of the envelope as far as screen terror was concerned.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/03/peeping-tom-1960.html

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Warner Bros announces work on new films based on The Lord Of The Rings franchise

Warner Bros has announced work on a new set of feature films based on The Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit franchises.

The films will invite fans deeper into the cinematic world of JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth “in new and exciting ways,”

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Charlie Mackesy thanks team who ‘poured hearts and souls’ into animated film

Charlie Mackesy said he was “eternally grateful” to the team behind The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse, after winning the Bafta for best British short animation.

The British artist said those involved had “poured their hearts

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William and Kate told of Queen’s support for Bafta at 2023 awards ceremony

The Prince and Princess of Wales received a warm welcome as they arrived at the 2023 Bafta awards ceremony and were told of the late Queen’s support for the academy.

William, who is president

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All Quiet On The Western Front storms the Baftas plus rundown of rest of winners

German language film All Quiet On The Western Front was the big winner at the EE Bafta film awards, scooping a total of seven prizes.

The Netflix anti-war epic, directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger and based on the 1929 nov

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Roger Daltrey talks about Keith Moon biopic

Make no mistake, Keith Moon, former drummer with The Who, is a legend. He's enough of a legend that (I kid you not), being dead for over a third of a century did not keep the powers that be from asking him to perform at the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. The only thing that can match

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Watching the incomparable Four Weddings and a Funeral

Some of my favourite moments from the Richard Curtis masterpiece

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Dame Helen Mirren to lead special tribute to late Queen at Bafta film awards

Dame Helen Mirren will lead a special tribute to the late Queen at this year’s film Baftas.

The veteran actress, 77, has portrayed the monarch on the silver screen and on the stage, winning an Oscar and Bafta for her depiction

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Dame Helen Mirren to lead special tribute to late Queen at Bafta film awards

Dame Helen Mirren will lead a special tribute to the late Queen at this year’s film Baftas.

The veteran actress, 77, has portrayed the monarch on the silver screen and on the stage, winning an Oscar and Bafta for her depiction in 2006’s

https://anglotopia.net/british-entertainment/british-movies/dame-helen-mirren-to-lead-special-tribute-to-late-queen-at-bafta-film-awards/

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Ten Interesting Facts About Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier was unquestionably one of the best actors to come out of the United Kingdom in the 20th Century.  A master dramatist from the classic era of Hollywood, he was also a phenomenal stage presence in everything from Noёl Coward to William Shakespeare.  Long before Kenneth Br

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Bill Nighy ‘honored’ after first Academy Award nomination for Living

British actor Bill Nighy said he is “grateful for the spotlight” his first Academy Award nomination brings to his latest film, Living.

Despite his long and impressive career, his first Oscar nod comes with his portrayal of a veteran civil servant who is inspired to

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Netflix’s All Quiet On The Western Front leads 2023 Bafta nominations

Netflix’s anti-war epic All Quiet On The Western Front leads the pack for this year’s Bafta film awards with 14 nominations.

The film, directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger and based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, ha

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Permissive (1970) is a British exploitation movie. It's like a 1960s British kitchen sink drama with nudity, sex, drugs and rock’n’roll added. But the soul-destroying desolation, despair and pessimism of the kitchen sink drama is still there.

The subject matter is groupies. The girls think they're going to find glamour and excitement but quickly find themselves on the discard pile.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2021/03/permissive-1970.html

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