Tag Archives: Jeremy Irons

Blu-ray review | Die Hard Quadrilogy – Two decades, four films & one cocky hero

Posted on 9 April 2012 by Movie Talk

With a fifth Die Hard movie, A Good Day to Die Hard, currently in pre-production, the first four films in the series featuring Bruce Willis’s maverick New York cop John McClane now make their debut on Blu-ray. Die Hard (1988), … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Time Regained – Raul Ruiz’s masterly screen version of Proust: as delicious as a Madeleine dipped in tea

Posted on 7 September 2009 by Jason Best

For years, the cognoscenti have agreed on two things about Marcel Proust’s epic 2,500-page, seven-volume semi-autobiographical novel A la recherché du temps perdu – it’s the greatest novel ever written and it’s un-filmable. Over the decades, the challenge of putting … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Brideshead Revisited

Posted on 11 August 2009 by Beth Williams

  When the TV series of Brideshead Revisited hit UK screens in the early 1980s it saw most UK households tuning in. Those of us old enough will remember that adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, and recall how Jeremy Irons … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Brideshead Revisited

Posted on 9 March 2009 by Jason Best

Currently appearing on the big screen looking distinctly uncomfortable in superhero Spandex in Watchmen, Matthew Goode seems much more at ease in Oxford bags in this film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He plays Charles Ryder, a middle-class Oxford … Continue reading →

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