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The 13th Warrior
FEAR REIGNS. In A.D. 922, Arabian nobleman Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan (Antonio Banderas) becomes the thirteenth warrior in a party of Vikings that are facing cannibalistic creatures called the Wendol. Michael...
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Lawrence of Arabia: Lost in the Sand
A mighty motion picture of action and adventure! I regret never having seen this film on a big screen, the kind of epic for which the widescreen format was invented. But it is a testament to the...
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Why are the world’s chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is. The deranged Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) escapes from a mental asylum and builds a powerful criminal organization...
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Top Secret!
MOVIE? WHAT MOVIE? American rock singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) goes to East Germany where he becomes involved with the… French Resistance? The Airplane! directors strike with a comedy in the same...
View ArticleOmar Sharif: Romantic Leading Man… and Comedy Icon?
Omar Sharif passed away today at the age of 83. In the Western world, he came to our attention in 1962, as Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia, where his intense dark eyes competed against Peter...
View ArticleThe Yellow Rolls-Royce
EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE! Following the success of The V.I.P.s (1963), the Anthony Asquith-Terence Rattigan duo reunited for another stylish piece of fluff where wealthy people deal...
View Article10,000 BC
IT TAKES A HERO TO CHANGE THE WORLD. 10,000 years before the birth of Christ, horse-riding bandits kidnap several members of the Yaghal tribe, including a young woman (Camilla Belle) whose man (Steven...
View ArticleHidalgo
UNBRIDLED. UNBROKEN. UNBEATEN. In 1890, cowboy Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) travels to Arabia to compete with his horse Hidalgo in a race to Damascus; some of his competitors are ruthless. Joe...
View ArticleDoctor Zhivago: Doomed to Eternal Winter
A LOVE CAUGHT IN THE FIRE OF REVOLUTION. When Soviet censors examined the script for Boris Pasternak’s novel ”Doctor Zhivago” in the mid-1950s, they were not happy. The story wasn’t politically...
View ArticleFunny Girl
FUNNY THAT HE SHOULD HAPPEN TO HER! Shortly before World War I, Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) embarks on an unconventional but very successful theater career, emphasizing her talent for comedy and...
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