The Day of the Jackal (2024) Review
Eddie Redmayne plays a charming assassin and Lashana Lynch the MI6 officer hunting him in this ten-episode reimagining of Forsyth's novel. A great first episode and good action, a saggy middle. It's a 7.
Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for The Theory of Everything, playing Stephen Hawking across the progression of motor neurone disease, which required extensive physical study. The Danish Girl and Fantastic Beasts followed, and he won a Tony for Cabaret. He was at Eton with Prince William and read art history at Cambridge.
Charles DanceEddie Redmayne plays a charming assassin and Lashana Lynch the MI6 officer hunting him in this ten-episode reimagining of Forsyth's novel. A great first episode and good action, a saggy middle. It's a 7.
Charlie CoxJames Marsh's 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor.
Carice van HoutenBlack Death is a small British medieval horror film that wants to be a serious meditation on faith and plague and mostly succeeds. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a knight commissioned by the church to investigate a village in the marshes…
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