No one — at least not in America — mentions Michael Praed, who starred in the title role of the British television series “Robin of Sherwood” in the mid-1980s. Perhaps Acorn Media’s release of its first 13 episodes on Blu-ray will help change that. It’s not that Praed’s acting makes him an iconic Robin — in fact, […]
John Boorman
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Excalibur
I recall finding it boring and tiresome, but I was 15 — what did I know? In the 20-plus years that have intervened, I’ve revisited it several times, each more pleasurably than the last. It’s a film that just gets better with age, and it looks fabulous in its Blu-ray debut. The iconic early scene […]