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Delicious fun this Elizabethan confection, a Shakespearean extravaganza just this side of full Disnefication. Superior cast, especially Joseph Fiennes & Gwyneth Paltrow as Romeo & Juliet, er, Will & Viola. …
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The Bard – As You Like It, er, Him
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“Introducing Audrey Hepburn” reads an opening credit. Yes, the elfin Screen Queen made her debut as a fairytale Princess in Roman Holiday, for which she won the Best Actress Oscar — a splash for the ages! One of the best RomComs ever, Roman Holiday enchants to this day, utterly charming begi…
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Moviestar Princess wearing Edith Head
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Restoration refers to Britain’s casting off of Puritanism, a liberated time of royal hedonism and bawdy theater, from which a much lauded historical novel was derived. Add in Robert Downey Jr., Meg Ryan, Sam Neill and the stunning Polly Walker for cinematic firepower. Restoration is the resul…
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Polly Walker's stunning Royal Mistress
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Few royalty movies reign more regally than Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown. Dame Judy Dench is magnificent as Queen Victoria, essaying the Empress of India right after she’d lost her Prince Albert. Director John Madden’s third picture includes Billy Connolly’s rollicking good performance as Scottish …
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Billy Connolly's Scots costume kilts me.
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Perfect from the first frame, this fascinating historical epic succeeds as enchanting love story, enthralling war movie and breathtaking nature film. Recounting the life of Temudgin from his noble boyhood to his emergence as Genghis Khan, Mongol puts to shame most action movies, with their con…
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Mongol Empire
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How to Steal a Million could just as easily be titled How to Steal a Movielover’s Heart. Audrey Hepburn & Peter O’Toole in their primes, Paris as if in a stylish fantasy, lots of well-earned laughs: it’s a sure thing. Wiliam Wyler famously directed Princess Audrey in Roman Holiday…
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Smashmouth provides ideal trailer track.
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Brett Ratner’s Hercules is the first great Hercules movie, or at least the first great one of the past 50 years, which is long enough to be worthy of mythical status. Dwayne Johnson cuts a fine figure as the big man, backed by a platoon of British thespians and presented amid stunning vistas a…
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Stunning image of the Acropolis in At...
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Why did Exodus – the ultimate big-screen Passover story – premiere right before the start of Hanukkah? Obtuse timing aside, Ridley Scott has wrought a magnificent Biblical epic in Gods and Kings, the best of the year, if not the millennium, and as thoughtful an action movie as you’ll ever exp…
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Moses our Teacher as Action Hero
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Clever and cute mashup of something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Romantic weddings and the girls who dream of them explain this calculated blend of old-fashioned animation, modern neuroses, borrowed storyline, and oh-so-blue make-believe world. I got stuck watch… |