Tag: helen mirren
The Caligula controversy ……
Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine, had set his sights on making a film about Roman Emperor Caligula. Costing between $8m and $14m it...
Excaliber – 4K UHD | BLU-RAY
Why did director John Boorman make Excaliber?
From his childhood, director John Boorman had always been fascinated by the King Arthur legend, Excaliber, Merlin et...
Caligula Ultimate Cut – REVIEW
It’s been almost 50 years since an all star cast of respected British actors were duped into appearing in a film that would later...
The Long Good Friday – 4K UHD BLU-RAY
There’s a true story that on the release of The Long Good Friday several elderly churchgoers went to the cinema on opening night believing...
We chat to the director and screenwriter of Golda about working...
The outbreak of the Yom Kippur war in 1973 caught Israel off guard and inflicted severe early losses on the army. The resulting public...
Golda – REVIEW
The big screen has been awash with actresses transformed and made almost unrecognisable perhaps most famously with Charlize Theron’s Oscar winning turn in ‘Monster’....
Golda – TRAILER
We are heading towards possible award winner film release season and landing in our inbox is the Golda trailer starring Helen Mirren in a...
Barbie – REVIEW
We’ve a friend who is very metrosexual taking longer to get himself ready to go out than our wives and girlfriends and so we...
Shazam Fury of the Gods – REVIEW
With its release a little delayed Shazam Fury of the Gods marks the end of the old DC universe and helms the start of...
The Duke – BLU-RAY / DVD
There’s an array of leading British acting talent whose presence in a film always elevate it and Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren certainly come...
