Rufus Sewell has been cast as the villain so consistently that he has joked about the shape of his own eyebrows being responsible.
Dark City gives him a rare lead, playing a man with no memory investigating his own possible guilt, and it is the best film work he has done.
Middlemarch, The Man in the High Castle and The Diplomat gave him substantial television, and he won an Olivier Award for Rock ‘n’ Roll on the London stage.
Darci ShawJudy (2019) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for a technically accomplished transformation inside a film that exists to contain it, covering Judy Garland's five-week London run five months before her death.
Brenton ThwaitesGods of Egypt (2016) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and forty million dollars of genuine visual ambition attached to a script nobody appears to have argued with. Gerard Butler is the only person on…
Cameron DiazTwo women in unhappy relationships swap homes for Christmas across the Atlantic and find new romance during the holiday. The Holiday is Nancy Meyers's 2006 American-British romantic comedy depicting two women in unhappy relationships, an English country-newspaper columnist and an…
Heath LedgerA Knight's Tale is what happens when a writer-director decides to make a medieval film while refusing to take medieval films seriously. Brian Helgeland wrote and directed.
Jennifer ConnellyDark City is the most underrated film in the history of science fiction cinema. It arrived in 1998, one year before The Matrix, explored several of the same fundamental questions about manufactured reality and the nature of consciousness, and was…
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