Movie Gazette

Reviews Featuring Michael Gambon

The Actors
An above-average Brit-comedy with a superb but largely under-used cast.

Ali G Indahouse
You’ll laugh here and there, but this is far from Ali G at his best. Pick up some of his early TV stuff if you can, but this is a film best left on the shelf.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A visually exhilarating but virtually unfathomable hundred-mile-an-hour bare-back hippogriff ride. Baffled? You will be!

Open Range
Proof, if ever it was required, that the Ol’ West did indeed stretch on… and on… and on… and on…

Sylvia
It’s hard to do poetic justice to the life of a literary great when you’re not allowed to use any poetry.

Layer Cake
Make sure you grab a slice of the cake.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Great visuals… shame about the story.

Angels in America
A bit like those angel’s wings, it’s sporadically up-lifting in a way that doesn’t quite make sense – but more often than that it’s a maudlin chore with too scant a reward.

Being Julia
Hats off to Annette Bening for a remarkable performance in an unremarkable movie.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Few films are as rich and strange as this bittersweet comic odyssey into the depths of human yearning.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
An all-around thrilling experience, even at two-and-a-half hours, this Harry Potter installment only whets our appetite for the final act(s) with touches of humor, romance, adventure, and a little bit of scariness.

Fantastic Mr. Fox
A fantastic big screen adaptation of a fantastic book keeps both kids and adults happy.

The Book of Eli
A post-Apocalytpic Western that's just not as good as many others out there.

News Items For Michael Gambon

Coltrane dreads end of Potter
Robbie Coltrane admits he is dreading the end of filming the Harry Potter movies

Gambon pulls out of Bennett play
Actor Sir Michael Gambon is forced to pull out of a lead role in Alan Bennett's new play at the National Theatre after being ordered to rest due to ill health.

Gosford writer to pen ITV drama
Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes, best known for Gosford Park and The Young Victoria, is to write a new period drama for ITV1.

Gambon to appear in Bennett play
Sir Michael Gambon is to star alongside The Queen actor Alex Jennings in Alan Bennett's new play when it opens in November, the National Theatre announces.

Briers pulls out of 'final' play
Actor Richard Briers withdraws from "his last role on stage", a West End production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame.

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