The Knight Shift and its proprietor would like to wish a very wonderful Happy Birthday today to Michael Caine – one of the finest and most versatile actors ever – on the occasion of his turning 80 years young!
The above image is from Caine’s 2009 film Harry Brown. If you have not seen it yet, I heartily recommend it. It’s definitely one of the better movies I’ve seen made in recent years....
The Prestige is a movie that I really wanted to see when it came out but I was too wrapped up in my school board campaign to do so at the time. It’s just come out on DVD and it arrived at our place via Netflix a few days ago. So tonight Lisa and I put it in and checked it out…
Man, I can’t remember when was the last time I saw a movie that I just had to watch again. I’ll probably watch it at least two more times before it goes back into the mail.
The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan (from a script he co-wrote with his brother Jonathan based on a novel by Christopher Priest) is about the bitter rivalry between two magicians at the turn of the twentieth century. Alfred Borden (played by Christian Bale, who was also in Nolan’s Batman Begins...