TV Guide: Angus MacFadyen

Listing: Braveheart

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 14 12:00 PM A&E

Listing: Redline

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:35:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 02:35 PM STRZ1

Video: Rat Pack, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:53:06 -0500

Shot in 33 days, this $9.6 million biographical drama of behind-the-scenes interactions within the Rat Pack group of Frank Sinatra (Ray Liotta), Dean Martin (Joe Mantegna), and Sammy Davis Jr. (Don Cheadle) is set against the political backdrop of the '60s, establishing links of singers, gangsters, actors, and politicans (sometimes brushing shoulders in the same rooms). The film also explores Sinatra's relationship with John F. Kennedy (William Peterson). Deciding to support Kennedy, Sinatra patches up his feud with Peter Lawford (Angus Macfadyen), since Lawford's wife, Pat (Phyllis Lyons) is JFK's sister -- and a Sinatra-Kennedy friendship soon follows. However, when Joe Kennedy (Dan O'Herlihy) decides Sinatra's nightclub, mob and commie connections are a no-no for JFK, the patriarch's interference angers Sinatra. Meanwhile, Sammy Davis Jr. enters into an interracial liaison with May Britt (Megan Dodds), and the dynamics of the situation are visualized in an imaginative musical fantasy sequence in which Davi

Video: Titus

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:45:38 -0500

One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, {~Titus Andronicus} was staged in New York by award-winning theatrical director Julie Taymor in an acclaimed 1995 production, before her widely praised Broadway version of The Lion King. Taymor revisits that production for her first motion picture, with the addition of a star-studded cast. Roman General Titus Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) has returned from defeating the Goths in a bloody battle, but the victory has left him with mixed feelings, as the war took the lives of several of his sons. Titus is reminded by his first-born son Lucius (Angus Macfadyen) that their faith demands the sacrifice of an enemy prisoner as a gift to the gods for their victory. Titus chooses the eldest son of Tamora (Jessica Lange), the Queen of the Goths, who has since been taken hostage by Titus's troops. Tamora pleads for her son's life, but Titus goes ahead with the sacrifice. She then becomes the lover of the new emperor of Rome, Saturninus (Alan Cumming), a weak-willed and corr

Video: Brylcreem Boys, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:14:33 -0500

Many may not know that Ireland maintained its neutrality during World War II, so that any soldiers from that conflict who found themselves on Irish soil had to be kept in captivity until the war's end. For a variety of aeronautical reasons, quite a few Axis and Allied pilots found themselves having to bail out over Ireland. In this film, captives Miles Keogh (Bill Campbell), a Canadian pilot, and Count Rudolph von Stegenbek (Angus Macfadyen), a German pilot, are rivals for the affections of Mattie Guerin (Jean Butler), a local Irish girl. How this rivalry continues is just part of the story of this exciting and romantic film. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide.

Video: Blackbeard

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:55:36 -0500

In the three-hour period television miniseries Blackbeard, Angus MacFadyen (Braveheart, Jason and the Argonauts) assumes the title role of the dreaded marauder who spent 1716-1718 terrorizing the Caribbean Sea. Born Sir William Teach, the mariner rechristens himself Blackbeard, and subsequently builds a legend around himself as the most merciless and loathsome pirate in world history by plundering as many ships and murdering as many seafarers as he can lay his dirty mitts on. Directed by Kevin Connor (Motel Hell, The Land That Time Forgot), Blackbeard co-stars big screen vets Rachel Ward, Stacy Keach, and Richard Chamberlain. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide.

Video: Nevada

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:17:06 -0500

A woman fleeing the man in her life discovers a city of women in this revisionist western. Chrysty (Amy Brenneman) is passing through the Nevada desert when she happens upon the small town of Silver, currently populated entirely by women and children, while the men in the community are gone -- working on a dam building project. When Chrysty discovers June (Bridgette Wilson) alone and in labor, she helps her as she gives birth; Chrysty opts to stay around, and she takes a job delivering milk. Silver is ruled by McGill (Kirstie Alley), the village's self-appointed sheriff who doesn't trust Chrysty; McGill discovers that Chrysty is actually an Idaho housewife running away from her husband, West (Angus MacFadyen). However, June's husband Rip (James Wilder), back in town after the birth of a child that may not be his and troubled by his wife's chronic infidelity, has fallen in love with Chrysty, and when West arrives to Silver to retrieve his spouse, Rip opts to fight for her hand. Nevada also features Saffron Bur

Video: Second Skin

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:12:23 -0500

A man trying to turn a new page in his life unexpectedly finds the lady in his life skimming through some previous chapters in this crime drama. Sam Kane (Angus MacFadyen) is a man trying to run away from his past; he's moved to a small town and opened a book shop in hopes of starting his life over again. One day, a beautiful woman with the improbable name of Crystall Ball (Natasha Henstridge) is struck by a car outside the shop, and Sam comes to her rescue. Sam and Crystal get to know each other, and they quickly fall in love, but he soon discovers she has connections to a hair-triggered criminal from Ohio who has come looking for her, which leads to some unpleasant revelations about his own past deeds. Second Skin also features Peter Fonda and Liam Waite. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:52:37 -0500

Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, {-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood} and {-Little Altars Everywhere}. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms with her estranged, boozy mother, Vivi (Ellen Burstyn), when she discusses her painful childhood and particularly Vivi's less-than-enviable mothering skills in a {~Time} magazine article. The eccentric Louisiana drama queen Vivi has already been barred from her daughter's oft-delayed wedding to her fianc , Connor (Angus Macfadyen), so the article sends her into a rage. Coming to the rescue of the relationship are Necie (Shirley Knight), Caro (Maggie Smith), and Teensy (Fionnula Flanagan), a trio of bickering women, who, along with Vivi, formed a secret society of feminist empowerment and friendship 60 years earlier that they dubbed the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Ya-Yas kidnap Sidda and bring her home to Louisiana, w

Video: Styx

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:03:12 -0500

The stars of Robocop and F/X come together for this 2001 heist thriller from director Alex Wright (The First 9 1/2 Weeks). After establishing himself as one of the world's best safecrackers, Nelson (Peter Weller) decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow. However, when his brother is targeted after going into debt with an organized crime ring, Nelson finds himself pulled back into the life he left behind for one last big job. Luckily, he has a little help in the form of fellow top-notch crook Art (Bryan Brown). Angus MacFadyen (Equilibrium) also stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide.

Video: .45

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:44:55 -0500

Milla Jovovich stars as Kat, a beautiful bad girl with a passion for guns and danger. Stuck in a life of crime and controlled by her ruthless, drug-dealing boyfriend Big Al (Angus Macfadyen), she wants more than what he has to offer.

Video: "Saw 3"

Yahoo Movies — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:12:11 -0500

Jeff (Angus MacFadyen) gets his first instruction from Jigsaw.