Centred on the intrigues leading up to and following the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, this historical drama begins with the arranged, loveless wedding of the Roman Catholic Marguerite de Valois, sister to the eccentric King Charles IX and daughter of the scheming Catherine de Medici, and the Huguenot Henri de Navarre. Despite Catherine's hope that the marriage may unite France, the mutual hatred felt by Catholics and Protestants soon degenerates into carnage and Margot, who has learned
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LEGEND (2015)
Certification18 Our Rating
The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960s.
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LISTEN TO ME MARLON (2015)
Certification15 Our Rating
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MESRINE: PART 1 A KILLER INSTINCT (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
A crackingly realised biog of a man who relentlessly dodged death with a cocky ambivalence that frankly defies credulity. 'Mesrine' is stylishly shot, smoothly directed and perfectly, charmingly, sociopathically performed by Cassell. A tight, pacey thriller considerably enhanced by the fact that it's based in, well…fact. This first film takes us from his brutal initiation as a soldier during the horrors of Algeria's fight for liberation to the end of the 1960s via France and French Canada.
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MESRINE: PART 2 PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1 (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
The last few years of Mesrine's life sees him starting to enjoy the fruits of his thievery but this is now a man tortured by his infamy; increasingly, egotistically consumed by his own invincibility. Mesrine part 2 is an odd film in the sense that it feels like half an hour of story dragged out to a feature length running time; Cassel still makes a crackingly charming psychopath mind
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MONGOL THE RISE TO POWER OF GENGHIS KHAN (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o
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TED BUNDY (2002)
Certification18 Our Rating
The man who reputedly inspired the creation of the term 'serial killer' finally gets his own movie, and a dark and relentless beast it is to, leaping from one grim and graphic murder to the next in an attempt to squeeze in as much of his prolific hobby as possible. Ted Bundy is a superior example of the recent wave of vaguely factual serial killer thrillers, disturbing certainly and fascinating to a point, if you like this kind of thing then you'll like this kind of thing.
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THE KRAYS (1990)
Certification18 Our Rating
The Kemp brothers are superb in this atmospheric film of the violent rise, and eventual fall, of the notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins from their deprived childhood through their vicious protection and gambling empire to the infamous murder of Jack "The Hat" McVeigh in The Blind Beggar pub.
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