Christopher Nolan would like you to view his film Tenet in a proper theatrical context. He probably didn't mean "on the tiny screen of a 20-year-old Game Boy Advance," but creator Bob Wulff had other ideas.
“Why are you
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They shared a carriage that rattled, bounced, swerved, shuddered and shrieked along a dark country road. They had bounced around inside the horse-drawn carriage for the entire journey in silence until this moment. The horses that pulled the carriage neighed nervously, more scared than their driver, who hurried them onward, and for good reason.
11 Romanian, meaning outside.
“I’m sorry?” said Jonathan, lonely, alone in a strange country and not the faintest inkling that his life was about to be changed forever. “This might be the roughest coach ride I’ve ever been on.”
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He was being jostled around in the haggard coach like a rag doll. Twenty-one years old, with dark hair and aqua eyes that made women smile, he fidgeted in discomfort. Harker wore a nice, sharp, brown suit that seemed to gather more and more wrinkles and creases with each passing bump, shimmer and bounce of the stagecoach. He rapped a gentleman’s cane against
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Released only a year after
The Pink Panther,
A Shot In The Dark was the film in which Peter Sellers’ incompetent and oblivious Inspector Clouseau came into his own; it marked the introduction of Clouseau’s trademark accent (which Sellers is said to have borrowed from a hotel concierge a week into filming) and of the characters of Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), the police commissioner who is driven insane by Clouseau’s antics, and Cato (Burt Kwouk), the valet whose job it is to ambush Clouseau at inopportune moments so the detective can keep his fighting skills sharp. Previously a bumbling scene-stealer, Clouseau was now the
Get ready to be scandalized all over again, so-called
Deadline, D.H. Lawrence’s
The Mustang’s Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and
Life Of Pi screenwriter David Magee, with Emma Corrin (fresh off of starring in
The Crown, which also scandalized fancy British society) starring. The original book, published back in the ‘20s, is about an upperclass British woman whose cold and neglectful husband is paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury, forcing her to seek solace in the arms of
a lover (in the parlance of the title) who happens to be a regular working class dude.
Thirty-five years ago, a new phrase first entered the pop culture lexicon: “There can be only one.” It’s from
Highlander, a 1986 sci-fi fantasy from director Russell Mulcahy. The film stars Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, a Scottish warrior who learns he’s an immortal being destined to battle across the centuries. Sean Connery co-stars along with Clancy Brown and Roxanne Hart.
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Though the film written by Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson is celebrating its 35th anniversary on March 7,
Highlander is a movie I thought I had never seen. That is, until I rewatched it recently when it became available on Amazon Prime. I realized I actually had seen it before, it had just been so long, I didn’t remember much. It slowly came back though and I began to formulate why the film, and the franchise it spawned, still remains a fan-favorite to this day.