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the three caskets My monthly shipment from Mile High came in the mail today as I was busy wrapping some final Christmas presents. The contents of the box was larger than normal and that was fine with me. After quickly scanning the stack, I pulled Lucifer and Y The Last Man as my first and second reading choices. Neither of them disappointed me. Once I had consumed both of them, Green Lantern Rebirth, The Flash and the Warren Eliis and Chris Sprouse creation Ocean followed in quick succession. ... Keeping with my Anglophile motif, before I went to work I finally saw the film Lion in Winter this evening and loved it. Both Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn were wonderful in their performance as were the rest of the cast. A young Anthony Hopkins made his screen debut as Richard the Lionhearted and had an interesting scene with a young Timothy Dalton. Plus Nigel Terry who will always be Arthur to me because of the John Boorman film Excalibur played an almost idiotic Prince John. I can't think of another historical drama with so many well known actors that really impressed me. Obviously all of the dialogue in the movie is purely speculative, because we have no concrete idea of what these people said to one another back in the year 1183. Nor did they gather together during Christmas time at such a place even though it did exist and was used by them. Those imaginary aspects of the film don't lessen the impact of the truly brutal verbal sparring these related characters inflict on one another. One review on Amazon called it a twelfth century Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and I have to say that I agree. Alliances are formed and destroyed over and over in the space of two hours and fifteen minutes. These weren't people in a "reality TV show", these were people who at one time ruled a large portion of the Western world and that was what kept me watching. |