Silver-screen sports stories rarely revolve around the big and brawny, but the small and scrappy, like Sean Astin in Rudy or Toby Maguire in Seabiscuit. For Scottish cycling sensation Graeme Obree (Trainspotting's Jonny Lee Miller), the biggest obstacle isn't physical, but financial--and psychological. From 1993 to 1995, when most of The Flying Scotsman takes place, ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Jonny Lee Miller, Laura Fraser, Billy Boyd, Brian Cox, Morvern ChristieDirected By: Douglas MacKinnon
The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, Trainspotting conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. Released on an unsuspecting ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert CarlyleDirected By: Danny Boyle
It must have seemed like fun at the time: a group of mates got together to play gangsters, ran around London's streets waving guns, dishing out beatings and shouting profanities at the top of their mockney lungs. It's the kind of game that any group of lads with a camcorder and a six-pack might indulge in on a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, these particular mates happen to be famous, so the ...
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Kathy BurkeDirected By: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Patricia Rozema is a Canadian director with the nerve to helm smart, big budget movies, as she proves again in Mansfield Park. She had her first hit with the quirky I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) in which the heroine, a mouse among art gallery sharks, eventually comes into her own, surpassing the mentor who's risen on her back. Similarly, in Mansfield Park, adapted ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya GordonDirected By: Patricia Rozema
The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller, Trainspotting is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, it conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. McGregor, Lee Miller ...
As a depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a thriller, it's cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John Badham's 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Jonny Lee Miller, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly SantiagoDirected By: Iain Softley
Like the animated series it's based on, Aeon Flux is the kind of sci-fi that's best appreciated by the MTV generation. It's a serious attempt at stylized, futuristic action/adventure (the title character, played by Charlize Theron, is essentially a female James Bond for the cyberpunk era) and taken for what it is, it's not all that bad. The action takes place in the year 2415, four ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Charlize Theron, Paterson Joseph, Yangzom Brauen, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller
Manufacturer: IMC VisionStarring: Julie Walters, Billie Piper, James Nesbitt, Jonny Lee Miller, Andrew LincolnDirected By: John McKay;Andy DeEmmony;Marc Munden;Julian Jarrold
No-one will be neutral about Plunkett and Macleane. Either you go with its notion of cheeky, stylish fun or you want to grab first-time director Jake Scott by the ear and slap him silly. Your inclination may depend on whether you recall his dad Ridley's own directing debut, The Duellists (1977), and savour the correspondences. Dad took a Joseph Conrad tale of the Napoleonic Wars, ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Iain Robertson, Ken Stott, Tommy FlanaganDirected By: Jake Scott
Stylish, snappy and entirely without a coherent idea in its head, Dracula 2001 is "Presented by Wes Craven" but shows comparatively little sign of his controlling intelligence. This is very much "Dracula--the Rock Video" with some memorable dream sequences and a lot of product placement: the heroine may not be a virgin but she works at Virgin Records. Among its incidental pleasures are a ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Gerard Butler, Justine Waddell, Jonny Lee Miller, Christopher Plummer, Colleen FitzpatrickDirected By: Patrick Lussier
