The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Terry Gilliam’s passion project finally arrives on the big screen after decades of production limbo and a variety of aborted efforts to bring a “Don Quixote” film to completion. The closest he came before...
Tagged: Jonathan Pryce
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is the second film in the series based on the Hasbro toy-line mostly popularized in the 1980s, coming after the weak first entry, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Though it is technically a...
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Although David Mamet’s adapted play Glengarry Glen Ross offers an often fascinating brief look into the world of high-pressure real estate salesmen, it’s mostly just a showcase for some terrific acting and smart dialogue. If...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
To the best of my recollection, there just hasn’t been a good pirate movie made in my lifetime, so it should be easy to guess that expectations were certainly low going into seeing Pirates of...
What a Girl Wants (2003)
Whenever I see a film that is wholly intended for an audience of which I am not a part of, I feel the need to put in a disclaimer to let you know, so...
The Rachel Papers (1989)
Call it a British version of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, only less successful. Normally I would knock a film for clearly going into plagiarist mode in style, but to be honest. when it’s in Ferris-mode,...
Stigmata (1999)
Some strange occurrences are going on in a church in Brazil, where a Madonna statue is weeping blood, and a Vatican priest (Byrne) known for his skepticism is sent in to investigate. One of the...
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Brosnan (Mars Attacks!, The Thomas Crown Affair) returns in the role of the British secret agent, this time to bring down a media magnate played by Jonathan Pryce (The Age of Innocence, Glengarry Glen Ross). It...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The legendary Baron Munchausen (Neville, Little Women), fabled to tell wild and fanciful stories, in the late 18th Century finds himself at the end of his life, just as the Age of Reason begins. The...