Archive 1997-2016
"I’m filming this,” declares Andrew (Dane DeHaan), as his father (Michael Kelly), drunk at 7 a.m., pounds on the bedroom door. “I bought a camera, and I’m filming everything from here on out.” The door shakes under one last, heavy blow, and goes still.
“I don’t know how to play that – I don’t wear the dress,” says Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), asked by her handler, Kenneth (Ewan MacGregor) to be “eye candy” on a covert operation. At least 20 minutes into the movie, this is the first hint of sincerity from her.
In a present-day city “calling itself Rome,” the man of the hour is Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes), newly christened Coriolanus for routing the Romans’ Volscian enemies from their stronghold in nearby Corioles.
Plenty of movies have magic wands, spells, and artifacts; their heroes quest for or stumble upon or escape to Rivendell, Narnia, and Camelot.