SUNDAY UPDATE: A24’s Backrooms became the studio’s highest grossing movie ever in ten days of release with a running ...

At 20, Peter Weir’s 2003 masterpiece Master and Commander remains a captivating historical drama – and an emblem of wholesome masculinity. A deeply detailed film set in the British Royal Navy during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Considering that Russell Crowe was coming off a run that includes his Oscar-winning turn in Gladiator, and his star-making role in ...

Based on the seafaring novels of Patrick O’Brian, this big-budget adventure by Peter Weir (The Truman Show) persuasively re-creates the experience of sailing aboard a British man-o’-war during the ...

I have never seen a film more vividly authentic than Peter Weir's 19th century naval warfare epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Not since watching Michael Mann's The Last of the ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russel Crowe as Captain jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin is finally coming to 4K Blu-ray, and we haven’t been ...

It was good to be from Down Under at the 76th annual Academy Awards, held Feb. 29, 2004 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood: Not only did New Zealander Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings: The Return of ...

I like to think that I first saw Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World under near ideal circumstances—ideal to both appreciate the film’s numerous qualities as entertainment and ...

Elvis Mitchell hosts Peter Weir, whose many films include The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, and his current film Master and Commander: Far Side of the World ...

Considering that Russell Crowe was coming off a run that includes his Oscar-winning turn in Gladiator, and his star-making role in L.A. Confidential, it’s truly impressive that his performance as ...