One of the big Elizabethan-era films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex, violence, and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as the ailing Queen “Bloody” Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national faith.She has no heir, and her greatest fear–that […]
Frost / Nixon
A series of news reports document the role of Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) in the 1972 Watergate scandal, prior to his 1974 resignation speech. Meanwhile, David Frost (Michael Sheen) has finished recording an episode of his talk show in Australia and watches on television as Nixon leaves the White House. A few weeks later in […]
The Great Debaters
Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a pervasive fear for blacks. […]
The Queen
In the 1997 general election, Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) becomes Britain’s prime minister. However, the Queen (Helen Mirren) is slightly wary of Blair and his pledge to modernize Britain, but he promises to respect the Royal Family. Three months later, Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash at the Alma Bridge tunnel in […]
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