Afraid of the Dark 1991  R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Mark Peploe
Cast: James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens, Susan Wooldridge, David Thewlis, Ben Keyworth, Catriona MacColl, Hilary Mason, Sheila Burrell, Frances Cuka
His mother, Miriam (Fanny Ardant), is blind, and 11-year-old Lucas' (Ben Keyworth) eyesight is deteriorating to the point where he faces eye surgery. In the meantime, he wanders around the neighborhood, believes that someone is committing brutal assaults on blind people, and begins his own investigation. Is Lucas living in the real world, or is it his imagination?
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Alien 3 1992  R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Danny Webb, Christopher John Fields, Lance Henriksen, Pete Postlethwaite, Holt McCallany, Christopher Fairbank, Leon Herbert
Sigourney Weaver is back for round three in the continuing saga. This time, as the team heads home, they crash-land on a planet inhabited by prisoners who have been given the chance to rule themselves. The only survivor of the crash is Ripley (Weaver), and, while recovering, she realizes that the killer alien is on this planet. Ripley and the prisoners set out to find and kill the alien, but Ripley is aware that her own time is limited because the alien has implanted an offspring inside her. Good visual effects.
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Catherine the Great 1995 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson, Brian Blessed, John Rhys-Davies, Agnes Soral, Mark McGann, Mel Ferrer, Jeanne Moreau, Karl Johnson
If you're a fan of Catherine Zeta-Jones, you may be interested in this film. The young (26 at the time of the film's release) Catherine plays Russian Empress Catherine as she rises to power followed by the early years of her reign. A history course this is not, as the major events of 18th-century Russia are merely "Oh, by the ways."
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 Fairytale: A True Story 1997  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Paul McGann, Phoebe Nicholls, Peter O'Toole, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nighy, Bob Peck, Anton Lesser, Tim McInnerny
Based on a true story, this plot revolves around two English girls who took a photograph, in 1917, of what is assumed to be fairies. The picture was taken to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter O'Toole), who vouched for its authenticity, and it was published in a magazine.
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Kidnapped 2005  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Brendan Maher
Cast: James Pearson, Iain Glen, Adrian Dunbar, Paul McGann, Gregor Fisher, Kirstin Smith, John Bach, Gilbert Goldie, Gavin Richards, Alexander Gandar
This "Masterpiece Theatre" production of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel compares favorably with previous filmings of the story of David Balfour (James Pearson) who is kidnapped to keep him from claiming his inheritance, and he is held on a slave ship on its way to the "New World." But Scottish outcast Alan Breck (Iain Glen) rescues Balfour, and the two race across Scotland with bounty hunters in hot pursuit.
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My Kingdom 2001 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Don Boyd
Cast: Richard Harris, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Bell, Emma Catherwood, Aidan Gillen, Louise Lombard, Paul McGann, Jimi Mistry, Reece Noi, Lorraine Pilkington
As in Shakespeare's "King Lear," this modern-day story involves a power struggle between three daughters. This time the father is a crime boss, and it is his illegal business ventures that the women covet.
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Our Mutual Friend 1998  TV, 360 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Farino
Cast: Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes, Steven Mackintosh, Anna Friel, David Morrissey, Peter Vaughan, Pam Ferris, Kenneth Cranham, Timothy Spall, Dominic Mafham, Margaret Tyzack, David Bradley
Based on Charles Dickens' last novel, this made-for-TV miniseries is set in 1860s' London and evolves from a mysterious death on the River Thames to a love story, and a social satire on the 19th century class structure.
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 The Queen of the Damned 2002 R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Michael Rymer
Cast: Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez, Paul McGann, Lena Olin, Christian Manon, Claudia Black, Bruce Spence, Tiriel Mora
In this sequel to Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire," Stuart Townsend takes on the Tom Cruise role of Lestat de Lioncourt. This time around, Lestat comes out of the shadows and enters the limelight where he succeeds as a rock star (the closest thing he can imagine to a god). His music is heard by the legendary Egyptian Queen Akasha (Aaliyah)–the Mother of all Vampires–whose aim is to gain dominion over the world. Now, she wants Lestat as her consort.
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The Three Musketeers 1993 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Action / Comedy / Romance
Director: Stephen Herek
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca De Mornay, Gabrielle Anwar, Michael Wincott, Paul McGann, Julie Delpy, Hugh O'Conor, Christopher Adamson, Philip Tan, Erwin Leder, Axel Anselm
In this Disney production, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, and Oliver Platt play the three Musketeers, and Chris O'Donnell takes on the role of D'Artagnan as they fight Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry) who is controlling the French government under Louis XIII (Hugh O'Conor). This is a funny flick.
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Withnail and I 1987 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Withnail & I
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick, Daragh O'Malley, Michael Wardle, Una Brandon-Jones, Noel Johnson, Irene Sutcliffe
Two unemployed actors, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann), like their booze and also need to get away from their dirty, messy flat in London. Withnail talks his rich, eccentric Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) into letting them use his cottage, which requires more roughing-it than they want, so they proceed to the nearest pub to drink and meet some of the weird locals. Monty shows up at the cottage and turns out to be pretty strange himself. Set in 1969, this has become somewhat of a cult favorite.
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| 1. Afraid of the Dark (1991)
2. Alien 3 (1992)
3. Catherine the Great (1995)
4. Fairytale: A True Story (1997)
5. Kidnapped (2005)
6. My Kingdom (2001)
7. Our Mutual Friend (1998)
8. The Queen of the Damned (2002)
9. The Three Musketeers (1993)
10. Withnail and I (1987)
aka: Withnail & I
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