John Standing Movies

Genres: Comedy   

Starring: Tom Riley, Tom Burke, Carmen Electra, Eddie Marsan, Michelle Ryan, ...

I Want Candy is the story of two aspiring film-students who find
themselves making a porn film in Leatherhead.Looking at the poster for the film, I was expecting this to be a dumb
British version of the all-too familiar teen comedies that pollute our
screens every summer (American Pie, Dude Where's My Car?, Not Another
Teen Movie, etc.). How wrong I was. It's not the greate...

Genres: Drama    Romance    Thriller   

Starring: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle, Leopold Benedict, ...

This gentle yet dramatic story of an ill-fated love affair between a
colonial Brit (Linus Roach) and his beautiful Indian servant (Nandita
Dass) reminds me of films of another era, perhaps Michael Powell's
masterful Black Narcissus, where the mystical allure of India is
powerfully dramatized. This simple yet effective story of longing,
love, and sensuality, corrupted by jea...

Genres: Action    Drama    Thriller   

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Eliza Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown, Charles Dance, ...

First of all, let me just mention the fact that I have not yet had the
chance to see the Mark Whalberg movie – Shooter. The Contractor and
Shooter are, at least on paper, almost the same movie. A hit-man is
given one important assignment, to kill someone very important, he does
the job and then finds out he was set up by the very people that hired
him.So, Wesley Snipes has...

Genres: Adventure    Mystery    Thriller   

Starring: Jared Harris, Doña Croll, David Harewood, Hayley Atwell, JJ Feild, ...

I was somewhat worried that this episode might deviate too far from the
original book, especially as "The Shadow in the North" is my favourite
of the Sally Lockhart quartet. However, I was pleasantly surprised, it
stuck extremely close to the book and really brought Philip Pullman's
creation to life. The acting was superb, Billie Piper as the Financial
Consultant-cum- detec...

Genres: Comedy   

Starring: Lisa Barbuscia, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Tara Summers, Flora Montgomery, Emma Buckley, ...

Rabbit Fever is a mockumentary collection of sketches, each one of them
focussing on a female personal device that was made popular by a single
1998 episode of Sex and the City (the latter half of 1998, rather than
the early episodes which were all directed by women). From opening
statistics that make Rabbit Fever sound like a soft porn movie, we are
treated to a sea of predict...

Genres: Adventure    Comedy    Drama    Family   

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Gerry O'Brien, ...

It is so refreshing to watch a family film that doesn't have to rely
only on special effects to tell the story. This film is just how they
used to make films with great acting, beautiful photography and of
course a lovely story. It's full of emotion and soul and it's just a
good all round film the whole family will enjoy. It's about a boy and
his parents who fall on hard times ...

Genres: Action    Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, ...

I was a fan of the "V for Vendetta" graphic novel, and Alan Moore
disinheriting the film was a bit discouraging. But he's always been a
little crazy. The film version is everything I could have possibly
hoped for - gripping, chilling, intense, exciting, heartbreaking. It
gets Moore's music if not his exact words; elements are slightly
different, subplots removed. But the idea -...

Genres: Action    Adventure   

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody, Roy Marsden, John Standing, Gavin Hood, ...

This is a sprawling (4 hours) remake of the Rider Haggard story, with
the usual added female and an extraneous subplot with Russian soldiers
seeking a "Stone of Power" buried along with the treasure of King
Solomon. It's very well shot, giving a vivid sense of the wide open
spaces of Africa, and very well acted. Patrick Swayze is an excellent
Alan Quatermain, and Allison Doody ...

Genres: Drama    Comedy    Romance   

Starring: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Milena Vukotic, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers, ...

Hi everyone... This is my first ever review, so I'll see how it goes...
I just saw this a few hours ago here at the Rio Film Festival and I
have to say, it was one of the most charming films I've seen this year.
Those who know Oscar Wilde's work should know that it is mostly based
on dialog, and this is no different.. but most of it is so hilarious
that even people who can't st...

Genres: Comedy    Drama   

Starring: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Barbara Sarafian, ...

Actually, Greenaway has nearly always been laughing. It's just that many
people fail to notice that. "8 1/2 Women", however, is different in that
even the people who hate it (of which there will be plenty; it's
Greenaway)
will have no doubts that it is a comedy, and Greenaway's lightest-toned
film
yet.It is a playful tribute to Fellini and Godard, and it features -
pr...

Genres: Crime    Drama    History    Thriller   

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Yves Beneyton, Betsy Brantley, Caroline Langrishe, ...

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Genres: Comedy    Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, ...

How could so many people miss this amazing performance? Bill Murray
pulls off something that hadn't been done since the days of Harold
Lloyd: a character who always succeeds despite the fact that he thinks
that everything is a game. Like Lloyd's blindfolded wanderings on
suspended buildings many stories in the air where he never falls down
or gets hurt, Murray triumphs as a sup...

Genres: Horror    Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount, Glenn Withrow, ...

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Genres: Comedy    Drama    War   

Starring: Patrick Pearson, Michael Elphick, Joe Melia, John Standing, Nicola Pagett, ...

The play - and screenplay - by Peter Nichols is primarily based on his
own experiences of his life in an army entertainment troupe (Combined
Services Entertainment) in Singapore and on the characters in the
troupe with him.(In this troupe were also British Comedy legends-to
be,Stanley Baxter and Kenneth Williams) He covers the poor conditions
that the artistes had to entertain ...

Genres: Biography    Drama    History   

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, ...

If one was to turn on David Lynch's The Elephant Man midway through,
without knowing what it was, one might be startled at the appearance of
the main character. One might even be tempted to make fun of the
character. But if one was to watch the film from the beginning, one's
sympathy with John Merrick (John Hurt), 'The Elephant Man,' would be
strong enough to deny that the form...

Genres: Adventure    Drama    Thriller    War   

Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, ...

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Genres: War    Drama   

Starring: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, ...

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