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Tag Archives: UK
Nora (2000) Pat Murphy, Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Andrew Scott
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. Read More »
Daniel (1983) Sidney Lumet, Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson Read More »
And the Same to You (1960) George Pollock, Brian Rix, William Hartnell, Leo Franklyn
Stuck with the name “Dickie Dreadnought,” Rix feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. Read More »
The Avenging Hand (1936) Frank Richardson, Victor Hanbury, Noah Beery, Kathleen Kelly, Louis Borel
A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. Read More »
The Informer (1929) Arthur Robison, Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward
Working class Irishmen Lars Hanson (as Gypo Nolan) and Carl Harbord (as Francis McPhillipp) are members of an anti-establishment “Party”, where politics is punctuated with gunfire. Read More »
Looking for Langston (1989) Isaac Julien, Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance Read More »
Tube Tales (1999) Gaby Dellal, Stephen Hopkins, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Kelly Macdonald
Some amazing stories that happened in the London underground, filled with true British humor. Read More »
The MacKintosh Man (1973) John Huston, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason
Joseph Rearden (Paul Newman) takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. Read More »
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh
When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors Read More »