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Netflixable? “The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die”
Orson Welles’ depiction of the confusing, intimate, bloody muddy mire of the Battle of Shrewsbury in “Chimes at Midnight” is the gold standard for Medieval combat recreated on film. Mel Gibson once told me he consulted “Chimes” in choreographing and … Continue reading
Movie Review: Russell Crowe makes a fine Italian ham as “The Pope’s Exorcist”
Russell Crowe has made many films better than “The Pope’s Exorcist,” and a few one could label as objectively “worse.” But he’s never made a more cynical movie, a shameless late-career grasp at that which he eschewed back when the … Continue reading
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