Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Professor and the Madman 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  My comments on both the Simon Winchester book and the film are on my YouTube channel 
  The Professor and the Madman 

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  Kingdom of Heaven 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Director’s cut - 194 mins

Popular reviews

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  Only Two Can Play 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2021 2

  Excellent performances all around and a smart script from Bryan Forbes, adapting Kingsley Amis’ novel “That Uncertain Feeling”. Peter Sellers plays a married Welsh librarian tempted to pursue an affair with a local councillor’s esteemed wife (Mai Zetterling), who can advance his position. Funny at times and there’s a real sexiness to the flirtatious and amorous exchanges between Sellers and Zetterling, as well as a touching groundedness to his home life relationship with his wife (played by Virginia Maskell). John…

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  A Matter of Resistance 1966

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2023

  This should be considered a classic! 
  Normandy, 1944. Catherine Deneuve plays a bored wife to her ineffectual husband, played by Philippe Noiret, living in a crumbling château (the wonderfully characterful Château de Neuville in Gambais) and with a desire to move to Paris for some excitement. Into her life comes a French spy (Pierre Brasseur) on a mission from England to help prepare for D-Day, whilst at the same time a German troop set up camp at the château. Farcical…