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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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]