Get your fill of some of Russell Crowe’s greatest screen coups as Robin Hood heads up a love-in with the Antipodean A-lister in our September Star Of The Month spotlight.
Robin Hood (also in HD for £4.99) - With this gritty, violent and complex historical epic, Ridley Scott comprehensively ladders the men-in-green-tights myth that still hovers in the dark corners of Sherwood forest. The story of Robin pre-hood features a tough-tender tour-de-force performance from Crowe.
Gladiator – Ridley Scott’s first collaboration with the Australian star of LA Confidential made Crowe into a megastar. With his Premier League haircut and leather skirt, Crowe demonstrates that the alpha male Hollywood hero is not dead – “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius…” he says. And a goosebumped world believes him.
Cinderella Man – Crowe lost over 50lbs and suffered cracked ribs and several concussions while prepping the role of a real-life prizefighter in Ron Howard’s lush, grisly and emotional epic, which tells the story of Jim Braddock – a washed-up loser who took the world heavyweight title in 1935 in one of the most stunning upsets in sports’ history.
Master and Commander – Criminally underrated Napoleon-era sea-faring yarn adapted from the Patrick O’Brian books by Aussie film god Peter Weir (Dead Poets’ Society, The Truman Show) with Crowe on dazzling form as the proud, brave and impetuous Captain “Lucky” Jack Aubrey.
A Good Year – Crowe gets to show his cuddly side as a workaholic banker who inherits his uncle’s French vineyard and learns to love life again in Ridley Scott’s big-hearted adaptation of Peter Mayle’s best-seller of the same name. Co-starring the utterly brilliant Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, Inception).
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