 | The Man in the Iron Mask [Read More ...]
Description: For the honor of the crown and the destiny of a country, the world's most renowned Musketeers reunite for one last epic battle. A sensational cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Oscar(r) winner* Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne shines in this lavish, ac... |
 | Longitude [Read More ...]
Description: Gracefully adapted from Dava Sobel's extraordinary bestseller, the four-part TV production of Longitude combines drama, history, and science into a stimulating, painstakingly authentic account of personal triumph and joyous discovery. Equally impressive is the way writer-direct... |
 | Dungeons & Dragons [Read More ...]
Description: There is trouble in Izmer. With the emperor dead from an assassin's poison, the 16-year-old princess Savina (Thora Birch) inherits not just the throne but also the royal scepter, which has the power to command gold dragons. With a youthful idealism, she decides all people shoul... |
 | Swann in Love [Read More ...]
Description: Everybody talks about reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, but do you know anyone who actually has? Here's a way to fake it: this film from Volker Schlöndorff dramatizes one section of the ponderous novel, casting Jeremy Irons as a French aristocrat who makes himself som... |
 | Stealing Beauty [Read More ...]
Description: Critics were decidedly mixed about this 1996 drama from Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, and the movie enjoyed only a brief theatrical release. Now it's best known for its early appearance by Liv Tyler as a 19-year-old beauty named Lucy who summers at a villa in Tuscany with... |
![]() | House of the Spirits [Read More ...]
Description: The House of the Spirits is a generational tale of life among the ruling class in a South American country, as adapted from the Isabel Allende novel, but the political realities coexist very uneasily with the magical realism in this Bille August film. The star power alone (Jerem... |
 | Waterland [Read More ...]
A middle-aged high-school history teacher uses his family's traumatic history to illustrate lessons for his students. |
 | Chinese Box [Read More ...]
Description: Set during the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong in 1997, this fascinating film uses that urgent and grandly ceremonial political backdrop for an intimate study of personal transition. Jeremy Irons plays a seasoned journalist who discovers he is terminally ill, causing him to be torn... |
 | Now Ladies & Gentlemen (Sub) [Read More ...]
Description: Claude Lelouch may never be the most profound director in the world, but he sure knows how to whip up a catchy distraction. And Now Ladies & Gentlemen finds Lelouch in a skippy, unpredictable mode. Jeremy Irons, who seems to be enjoying himself enormously, is a thief who sets out... |
 | The Man in the Iron Mask [Read More ...]
Description: Footnotes in movie books are likely to reduce this swashbuckling adventure down to a simple description: it was the first movie to star Leonardo DiCaprio after the phenomenal success of Titanic. As such it automatically attracted a box-office stampede of Leo's young female fans, ... |
 | Dead Ringers [Read More ...]
Description: Like many other films by Canadian director David Cronenberg (especially Crash), Dead Ringers presents the cinematic and psychological equivalent of an automobile accident--you dare not look, but you can't turn away. The film marked a directorial breakthrough for Cronenberg, who w... |
 | Reversal of Fortune [Read More ...]
Description: One of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s involved Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin. Director Barbet Schroeder, working from Nicholas Kazan's evocative, darkly humorous script, turns t... |
![]() | Damage (Unrated) [Read More ...]
Description: The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare... |
![]() | Fourth Angel [Read More ...]
Review: A mesmerizing thriller! :
From time to time, certain films emerge from the quotidian triviality (and this is one of them) to engage us from the first shots, to make we live with those personages the fatalism of his dramatis personae, leaving our accustomed positions of simple spe... |
 | Brideshead Revisited, Book 2 [Read More ...]
Description: Fill a bowl with alpine strawberries, break out the Château Lafite (1899, of course), and bask in this benchmark 1981 British miniseries based on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. Adapted for the screen by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey), this impeccable, nearly 11-hour produc... |
 | Brideshead Revisited, Book 1 [Read More ...]
Description: Fill a bowl with alpine strawberries, break out the Château Lafite (1899, of course), and bask in this benchmark 1981 British miniseries based on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. Adapted for the screen by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey), this impeccable, nearly 11-hour produc... |
![]() | Wild Duck, The [Read More ...]
Review: "Self-deception is the stimulating principle of life.":Originally produced in 1983, this 93-minute adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play stars Jeremy Irons, Liv Ullmann, and Lucinda Jones. The mostly British cast uses Anglicized versions of the original Norwegian names, though the t... |
 | Last Call (2002) [Read More ...]
Description: F. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lifetime battling demons - alcohol and a schizophrenic wife - and yet, wrote some of the greatest novels in American Literature. Despite a tumultuous relationship with his mistress, his ailing wife, declining health, and his daily drinking binges, F... |
 | Ken Burns's America - The Statue of Liberty [Read More ...]
Description: Ken Burns's fourth short film gives us a clear taste for the style that he made famous with The Civil War and Baseball. The first half of this hour-long program examines the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty using drawings, photographs, and readings (Jeremy Irons g... |
 | Eragon [Read More ...]
Description: Live the Adventure. Detailed walkthroughs and tutorials will guide the reader through the authentic Eragon universe.Huge pull out poster included. Detailed spell lists, powerful melee combos and ruinous finishing moves will crumble your foes.Learn to leverage team attack bonuses ... |
