Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Ian McKellen"

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Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]

May, 02

The Scarlet Pimpernel *** (1982, Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 3376

‘They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him here everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel.’ Director Clive Donner’s 1982 Eighties British TV movie version of […]

Feb, 18

Last Action Hero *** (1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O’Brien, F Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance) – Classic Movie Review 2582

Producer-director John McTiernan’s comedy sci-fi action adventure thriller was supposed to be the 1993 summer blockbuster but Jurassic Park stole much of its thunder and its business. Unfairly, and unexpectedly, it severely damaged Arnold Schwarzenegger’s box-office […]

Jun, 10

Mr Holmes ***½ (2015, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Frances de la Tour) – Movie Review

With a bit of Gandalf in there, and looking and sounding remarkably like Sir John Gielgud, Ian McKellen has a lot of fun slicing the ham as an aged, retired Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is […]

May, 06

The Shadow **** (1994, Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Tim Curry, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 2324

Director Russell (Highlander) Mulcahy’s vastly underrated 1994 release is a highly entertaining comic-book fantasy adventure, based on the Advance Magazine character. Alec Baldwin gives an engaging, easy-going performance as The Shadow and his alter ego […]

Mar, 28

Six Degrees of Separation **** (1993, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Will Smith, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 2099

Stockard Channing as Ouisa Kittredge: ‘I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people… I also find it like Chinese water torture that we’re so close, because you have […]

Jan, 23

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies *** (2014, Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage) – Movie Review

Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen return as Bilbo and Gandalf for one last time in Peter Jackson’s final Middle-Earth action movie that turns the two sweet, thoughtful characters into lusty action heroes and the final episode of […]

Dec, 10

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