Young Winston
After his directing debut, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Richard Attenborough turned his attention to Winston Churchill and a David Lean-style epic blending politics with military battles. We learn…
One Life
Many have seen the clip from a 1980s British talk show where one of the guests is surprised to learn that everybody in the audience surrounding him are people he…
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
When they learn that Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein) and his forces are coming to the moon of Veldt, Kora (Sofia Boutella) and her warriors prepare the villagers for combat. For…
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
In a galaxy far away, a princess (Sofia Boutella) is hiding from an evil empire on a distant moon, but soon soldiers are coming… The kind of space opera that…
Elephant Man: A Victorian Sensation
John Hurt. Photo: Brooksfilms In 1979, John Hurt terrified a whole world in the sci-fi-horror movie Alien, in a sequence that required a lot of special makeup effects. One year…
Lion in Winter: A Plantagenet Power Struggle
Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Photo: Embassy Pictures You may barely remember Henry II from history class, but in the 1960s the Medieval king was hot stuff. Peter O’Toole played…
Westworld
What became an exciting thriller by Michael Crichton in 1973 was turned into a far more ambitious but also convoluted TV series, set in the 2050s where a corporation is…
Thor: Ragnarok
After being imprisoned by a fire demon, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) learns that Asgard is about to be destroyed and the one responsible will be his sister, Odin’s firstborn, Hela (Cate…
Transformers: The Last Knight
Optimus Prime and Megatron are long gone, but new Transformers keep coming back to Earth; Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) finds new allies in his quest to learn why. The fifth…
Thor: The Dark World
After the events of The Avengers (2012), Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is brought back to Asgard in chains, but Thor (Chris Hemsworth) soon faces another formidable enemy – a dark elf…