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Posted in McKellen, Richard III on Jan 2nd, 2008
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, and Robert Downey Jr.
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Audiences nowadays most likely know him as either Magneto from the X-Men movies or (if you have better taste) as Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He’s known to a smaller but equally devoted crowd as one of the [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.