The Name of the Rose, 1986.Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Michael Lonsdale, William Hickey, Ron Perlman, F. Murray Abraham, and Valentina Vargas.SYNOPSIS:An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.Imagine, if you will, Sean Connery as a Columbo-style medieval monk investigating a series of […]
Countdown to No Time To Die: The Top 10 Bond Villains
Chris Gelderd on the top ten James Bond villains…The James Bond series in both book and film introduced villains that would become household names and echo through popular culture decades later. The villains of the Bond universe are unlike anyone audiences have seen or read about before. They have evil plans that are bafflingly outrageous […]
Blu-ray Review – Ronin (1998)
Ronin, 1998.Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Sean Bean, Michael Lonsdale, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, and Skipp Sudduth.SYNOPSIS:A group of mercenaries are hired by Irish terrorists to retrieve a case to stop it falling into Russian hands.In case you didn’t know, ronin are Samurai warriors whose masters have been killed, […]
