TV Guide: Brian Blessed

Listing: Tarzan

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 9 05:00 PM DISXD

Listing: As You Like It

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 9 01:00 AM HBOSGe

Listing: Patrick Stewart: Make It So

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0500

Tue Dec 1 09:00 AM BIO A profile of actor Patrick Stewart recalls his childhood in England; early theater work with the Royal Shakespeare Company; and international fame following “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Among those commenting: Ben Kingsley; Jonathan Frakes; Trevor Nunn; Hugh Jackman; TV GUIDE's Matt Roush; Madeleine Albright; his brothers; and his son, Daniel.

Video: Much Ado About Nothing

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: An all-star cast features in Shakespeare's comedy of romantic hookups, bickering couples, and the meaning of love. With Keanu Reeves, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, and Kate Beckinsale in her first movie.

Video: Henry V

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: Oscar-winning, gritty adaptation of Shakespeare's story about the burdens of leadership, spiced with violent battle scenes and comic romantic wordplay. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, with Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson, Ian Holm.

Video: The Joy of Bach

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

This delightful and kaleidoscopic presentation of the great composer's music includes an impressive assortment of period and contemporary performances given by a wide variety of celebrated musicians and interspersed with dramatic biographical sketches from Bach's life played by Brian Blessed of Masterpiece Theatre fame.

Video: The Joy of Bach

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

It is two hundred years into the future, much has changed, but one thing remains a constant, crime and it's getting a little bizarre. Boris Goudphater ("Good-farter") is a first prototype cyborg developed by the World Security Network (WSN) to combat crime. The experiment failed due to a dangerous defect. Goudphater manages to survive the de-commissioning process and escapes. Horribly disfigured and angry, he is at large and out for revenge. Agent Crush is a second prototype cyborg, and is trying to prove himself as a secret agent. Crush has been furnished with all types of superhero gadgets but he is prone to bumbling accidents and causes havoc wherever he goes. Accompanied by his genius inventor sidekick, Spanners and Spanner's daughter Cassie, his latest mission is to stop Goudphater from exploding a nuclear device in the center of the Earth's magma core and causing every volcano to erupt, destroying the Earth. A spectacular flying car chase through the streets of New York and the u

Video: Life of Brian Trailer

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a messiah -- yet he's always in the shadow of this other guy from Galilee. Brian is witness to the Sermon of the Mount, but his seat is in such a bad location that he can't hear any of it ("Blessed are the cheesemakers?"). Ultimately, he is brought before Pontius Pilate and sentenced to crucifixion, which takes place at that crowded, nonexclusive execution site a few blocks shy of Calvary. Rather than utter the Last Six Words, Brian leads his fellow crucifixees in a spirited rendition of a British music-hall cheer-up song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." The whole Monty Python gang (Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam) are on hand in multiple roles, playing such sacred cha

Photo: As You Like It - Brian Blessed

courtesy Laurie Sparham/HBO

As You Like It, Brian Blessed