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Stellan Skarsgård Movies
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Genres:
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Tom Hanks,
Ewan McGregor,
Ayelet Zurer,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Pierfrancesco Favino,
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Tom Hanks returns as Dan Brown's symbologist Robert Langdon in his
first adventure Angels & Demons, which Hollywood decided to make after
The Da Vinci Code, given the latter's more controversial subject
striking a raw nerve on the faith itself. The Catholic Church was up in
arms over the first film, but seemingly nonchalant about this one. And
it's not hard to se...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Josef Altin,
Ashley Artus,
Dominic Cooper,
Lorcan Cranitch,
David de Keyser,
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In a freezing, filthy, overcrowded hut in Auschwitz a group of
emaciated Jewish prisoners await their fate. Around half of them will
be selected for the gas chamber within a couple of hours and most seem
paralysed by fear, hunger and despair - but one angry inmate rails
against God. His anger provokes reactions and soon the men - they are
all men - agree to put God on trial, qu...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Horror
Thriller
Starring:
Barbara Adair,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Peter Ballance,
Selma Blair,
Melissa George,
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I went to one of the first official screenings of this film last night
at the frightfest in London, West End. It was brilliant! I wouldn't
suggest that I was sceptical, but more open minded and intrigued to
discover exactly what this movie was going to be like. I had heard
mixed reviews about pre-completed screenings and at the end of the day,
didn't want to waste my Su...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Romance
Starring:
Amanda Seyfried,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Pierce Brosnan,
Nancy Baldwin,
Colin Firth,
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Went to see Mamma Mia without particularly high expectations. Not being
a big connoisseur (or even fan) of musicals, I didn't really know what
to expect. Though I adore ABBA, I never bothered to watch the stage
production of Mamma Mia. But having a cinema membership, I didn't have
much to lose (no money, at least), so I went for it. And boy, am I glad
that I did! I can ...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Geoffrey Rush,
Orlando Bloom,
Keira Knightley,
Jack Davenport,
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(contains spoilers... but trust me, that won't matter).it's safe to say that Johnny Depp single-handily made the 'pirate'
series a success. if not for Depp telling interviewers Keith Richards
inspired his captain jack-isms, Keith Richards would certainly not have
appeared in the 3rd movie. in between the excessive amount of canon
balls/sword fights scenes, i couldn&...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Horror
Thriller
Starring:
Barbara Adair,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Peter Ballance,
Selma Blair,
Melissa George,
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I went to one of the first official screenings of this film last night
at the frightfest in London, West End. It was brilliant! I wouldn't
suggest that I was sceptical, but more open minded and intrigued to
discover exactly what this movie was going to be like. I had heard
mixed reviews about pre-completed screenings and at the end of the day,
didn't want to waste my Su...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Orlando Bloom,
Keira Knightley,
Jack Davenport,
Bill Nighy,
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As a sequel, it had much to live up to the glory of the first film, and
personally, I thought it had done rather well. The special effects on
Bill Nighy (Davey Jones) and his pirate crew was perhaps the best; it
was very realistic. The movie had a bit of a slow start, but overall
was a wonderful film. Johnny Depp did well in his portrayal of Captain
Jack Sparrow, as previously ...
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Genres:
Drama
Biography
War
Starring:
Javier Bardem,
Natalie Portman,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Randy Quaid,
José Luis Gómez,
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There is one great flaw here that almost everyone mentions... and it's
true. The accents of the non-Spanish actors clash terribly with the
Spanish ones, as well as with each other. That's a real flaw, but if
you can get past that, there's a great film waiting to be seen. I found
I forgot all about it after the first 10 minutes. The critics just
don't get this fi...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Starring:
Hringur Ingvarsson,
Spencer Wilding,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson,
Gunnar Eyjólfsson,
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Breath-taking scenery, strong performances and an unexpected message
come together in Sturla Gunnarsson's Beowulf & Grendel. Forget the
dusty, inaccessible saga that may have been forced upon you in High
School or as a College Freshman in English Lit! New life is breathed
into Beowulf, the oldest text of recorded English, first set to
sheepskin in 1000 A.D. after 500 years of s...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Starring:
Hringur Ingvarsson,
Spencer Wilding,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson,
Gunnar Eyjólfsson,
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Breath-taking scenery, strong performances and an unexpected message
come together in Sturla Gunnarsson's Beowulf & Grendel. Forget the
dusty, inaccessible saga that may have been forced upon you in High
School or as a College Freshman in English Lit! New life is breathed
into Beowulf, the oldest text of recorded English, first set to
sheepskin in 1000 A.D. after 500 years of s...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
History
War
Starring:
Clive Owen,
Ioan Gruffudd,
Mads Mikkelsen,
Joel Edgerton,
Hugh Dancy,
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I have been a huge King Arthur fan ever since the night that I sat in
an empty theater, in my hometown, awestruck by John Boorman's
Excalibur.Since then, I have seen the legend of King Arthur mutilated in films
such as First Knight and The Mists of Avalon.My high hopes for the movie, King Arthur, were dashed before the film
even opened in theaters, by critics who were panning the m...
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Genres:
Horror
Thriller
Starring:
Stellan Skarsgård,
Izabella Scorupco,
James D'Arcy,
Remy Sweeney,
Julian Wadham,
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After a prologue showing a priest walking through the results of an
astonishing massacre, we meet a young Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard)
not long after he's abandoned his faith and is considering himself an
archaeologist rather than a priest. Merrin is asked in his new capacity
to travel to British East Africa, where a Christian church has been
discovered 1500 years older th...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Music
Thriller
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson,
Milla Jovovich,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Doug Hutchison,
Joss Ackland,
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First off, let it be known that the reason I rented this was because of
my seemingly never-ending crush on Milla Jovovich. I started watching
because of her, but I kept watching because I genuinely enjoyed what I
saw. The film starts out a tad slow, but it quickly picks up and never
lets the viewer down again. The thought of not paying attention to it
never crossed my mind past...
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Genres:
Drama
Music
War
Starring:
Harvey Keitel,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Moritz Bleibtreu,
Birgit Minichmayr,
Ulrich Tukur,
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There are two constituencies for director Istvan Szabo's "Taking Sides," a
story of famed conductor (and not so well known composer) Wilhelm
Furtwangler's accountability for his actions in Germany and occupied
Europe
during World War II. One is a relatively small coterie of devoted
classical
music lovers, few of whom are old enough to have ever seen the maestro
conduct ...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Matt Dillon,
James Caan,
Natascha McElhone,
Gérard Depardieu,
Kem Sereyvuth,
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What I really enjoyed about "City of Ghosts": The atmosphere of modern
Cambodia; the understated characters and storytelling.I recently spent a couple of weeks in Cambodia. The portrayal of Cambodia in
the movie brought back many memories of the place, and I found the overall
feeling to be accurate. We get a sense of the sadness and tragic history of
the country, its current condit...
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Genres:
Thriller
Starring:
Leelee Sobieski,
Diane Lane,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Bruce Dern,
Kathy Baker,
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I had not heard much about "The Glass House", besides unfavorable reviews
by
critics, who claimed it was a ridiculous display of unintentional humor.
However, when I came across it casually on HBO, I was immensely surprised
and impressed!The story was gripping and I loved the character development - which is
so
rare in thrillers today. I thought the cast was brilliant, espe...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Stellan Skarsgård,
Jean Anderson,
Lena Headey,
Charlotte Rampling,
Louise Goodall,
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In "Aberdeen", a young London attorney (Headey) goes to Norway to retrieve
her long estranged alcoholic father (Skarsgard) and escort him to Aberdeen,
Scotland for a last visit with her dying mother. Along the way, a simple
journey becomes an odyssey of discovery as the 15 year separated father and
daughter get to know the best and the worst of each other. The principals in
thi...
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Genres:
Horror
Thriller
Action
Sci-Fi
Starring:
Thomas Jane,
Saffron Burrows,
LL Cool J,
Michael Rapaport,
Stellan Skarsgård,
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After the opening scene of *Deep Blue Sea*, in which (predictably) a
shark terrorizes a quartet of partying teenagers on a boat, I decided I was
in for a crappy movie. A crappy movie that would contain basically every
movie AND horror movie cliche I could think of. I was right. And
wrong.I will say that the premise for this movie is great: super-intelligent
sharks. Sharks are ...
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Genres:
Action
Crime
Thriller
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Jean Reno,
Natascha McElhone,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Sean Bean,
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John Frankenheimer didn't have a lot of credibility in his last few
years. His final film was the rather crap Reindeer Games, with Ben
Affleck, and in 1996 he gave us the utterly terrible Island Of Doctor
Moreau. However, he did do Ronin in 1998, which makes up for absolutely
everything.It is a detachment from glossy, MTV-directed, Hollywood action movies.
If you want trash...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Robin Williams,
Matt Damon,
Ben Affleck,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Minnie Driver,
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There's one thing about Hollywood - you can't stop the hype. I think it was
the hype that gave this movie the bad reviews by some IMDB users, as let's
face it, it can totally ruin a movie for some people.In "Good Will Hunting", you have to look past the hype and Oscars and see
that it really is a gorgeous film written by two very talented young men,
and acted out by proficient acto...
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Genres:
Drama
History
Mystery
Starring:
Morgan Freeman,
Nigel Hawthorne,
Anthony Hopkins,
Djimon Hounsou,
Matthew McConaughey,
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I do not attend more than a handful of movies a year at a theatre. I rent
far more videos, Amistad being one of them. As I recall, Amistad did not wow
the theatrical audiences big-time. But the expression "big-time" seems to
indicate numbers of dollars and attendees. I am also a big fan of Anthony
Hopkins and remember him as a compelling actor long before his Oscar role. I
beli...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Emily Watson,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Katrin Cartlidge,
Jean-Marc Barr,
Adrian Rawlins,
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Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves is the kind of film that makes me
proud to be a film-goer and exceeds anything I could have possibly
expected from the man who made Element of Crime. That film had some
clever experimentation (and so does this one) but this film is the kind
that's beauty and power echoes in your mind hours after you've watched
it. This is a flabbergasting wor...
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Genres:
Action
Drama
Sport
Starring:
Matthew Modine,
Jennifer Grey,
Cliff Robertson,
Jack Thompson,
Stellan Skarsgård,
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One thing is for certain - you will either hate this film, especially if you
can't stand the sea, boats and wind, or, if you like any of these,
especially if you like _all_ of them, you will love it. Admittedly it has a
simple, proven plot, gives short shrift to the history of the America's Cup
and features a rather non-describt cast - but the film does have superior
and imagin...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Starring:
Sean Connery,
Alec Baldwin,
Scott Glenn,
Sam Neill,
James Earl Jones,
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'Red October' did for modern submarine warfare what 'Das Boot' did for WWII.
It took a concept that is inconceivable to most people (living in a boat
underwater with people trying to blow you up) and brought it up close and
personal. The resulting suspense and excitement for this type of film is
always extremely entertaining and this film delivers nicely.Tom Clancy's thrilling no...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Juliette Binoche,
Lena Olin,
Derek de Lint,
Erland Josephson,
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Romanticism originally doesn't mean romance. The 19th century romantic
hero was always a doomed one. The romantic characters long for
something larger than life. The frailness, lightness of things is
unbearable to those sensitive beings. This is why romantic stories
typically end with the death of their heroes. Romanticism is the
opposite of Hollywood, as there is no happy end....
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