Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6 Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6…
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The Scorpion King: The Book of Souls
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Director Don Michael Paul Starring Zach McGowan, Peter Mensah, Nathan Jones Rated M Score 0.5/6 The Scorpion King teams up with a female warrior named Tala, who is the sister of The Nubian King. Together they search for a legendary relic known as The Book of Souls, which will allow them to put an end…
Hornblower: Mutiny & Hornblower: Retribution
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner Rated M Score Hornblower: Mutiny 5/6 & Hornblower: Retribution 5.5/6 Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. In Hornblower Retribution Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica…
Hornblower: The Frogs and The Lobsters
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher Score M Rated 5.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. The Frogs and the Lobsters is the last of the movies that had its name changed for the US market where it is known as…
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Cherie Lunghi Rated M Score 3.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own. This is another one I liked, partly because its another example of Hornblower’s poor track record early on in his career…
Hornblower The Even Chance
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Dorian Healy Rated PG Score 4/6 Horatio Hornblower begins his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications. The eight films cover the events of just three of the ten novels by C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower…
Johnny English Strikes Again
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Director David Kerr Starring Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko Rated PG Score 4.5/6 After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker. This is not the type of movie that gives the spirit of…
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N
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Director Raoul Walsh Starring Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty Rated 5/6 Score G During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters in the United States), A Ship of the…
Sharpe’s Waterloo
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Director Tom Clegg Starring Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley, Abigail Cruttenden Rated M Score 5/6 Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815. Sharpe is assigned to the Prince of Orange’s staff and is rejoined with Sgt. Harper (retired) and riflemen Hagman and Harris at the famous battles of…
Sharpe’s Revenge & Sharpe’s Justice
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Director Tom Clegg Starring Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley, Abigail Cruttenden Rated M Score 4/6 Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napoleon’s gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile, Jane – urged on by a friend – makes some questionable choices. Despite the troubles of Sharpe in this movie, there…