jonathan rhys meyers

From Paris With Love

July 9, 2010 Culture

Luc Besson has a business model.  The writer-director of such compelling action films as La Femme Nikita, The Professional and The Fifth Element has now founded EuroCorp films with a simple plan:  make American-style action pictures with American-style stars but set them in France.  It worked with Taken, an almost-too-efficient thriller with solid values and [...]

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The Tudors, Season One

June 11, 2010 Culture

A funny story.  When Showtime’s The Tudors first came out, it was given a preview on some non-premium cable channel (USA?  I can’t remember).  So I tuned in and watched the first episode and thought, “I don’t really get the point of this.”  Only much later did I realize that, in this non-premium version, all [...]

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