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Tag Archives: Maggie Smith
Downton Abbey: A New Era
The Downton movies are comfort food, like a good chicken pot pie on a cold winter day. A New Era is no exception. There is nothing surprising, and there are no real shocks (except one minor but surprising action that … Continue reading
Downton Abbey
Nothing really new here. If you liked/loved the series on TV, you’ll like/love the movie. It’s just a little bigger, a little more grand, a little more lush, and has perhaps one or two too many subplots. To give enough … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films
Tagged Allan Leech, Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, Kevin Doyle, Maggie Smith, Michael Engler, Mr. Moseley, Raquel Cassidy
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Late Night
Late Night is, well, occasionally diverting. Much of the promotion for the film has focused on the fact that current star Mindy Kaling wrote this specifically for legendary actress Emma Thompson, as if that fact had value in and of … Continue reading
Two Semi-Classics: Anne of the Thousand Days and Anastasia
Being a history nut as well as a film person, I try to fill in the many gaps in my film experience with classic or semi-classic historical films. I recently had the opportunity to see 1969’s Anne of the Thousand … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films
Tagged Academy Award, Anastasia, Anne of the Thousand Days, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, Downton Abbey, Gaslight, Genevieve Bujold, Golden Globe Awards, Helen Haye, Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Maggie Smith, National Board of Review, Richard Burton, Roberto Rossellini, Romanov, Romanovs, Russia, Siam, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Ten Commandments, Vladovostok, Yul Brynner, Yuliy Borisovich Briner
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Second Exotic Marigold Hotel is the first film I’ve written about where I have to throw my hands up and declare it officially critic-proof. Not that I couldn’t sit back and analyze it from several different perspectives. It doesn’t … Continue reading
Quartet
Quartet is a pleasant diversion, and will be remembered mainly as Oscar-winning actor Dustin’s Hoffman’s first (only?) directorial effort. Young people will stay away from it in droves, as it concerns a group of classical musicians who live in a … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films
Tagged Dame Gwymeth Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Smith, Quartet, Ronald Harwood
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Film stuff by Mark 