Tag: John Rhys-Davies
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No One On The Set Of Indiana Jones Was Safe From The Pythons
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” remains the best Indiana Jones film partly due to its very real sense of danger. According to John Rhys-Davies, who played Indy’s sidekick Sallah, director Steven Spielberg “was making it up as he goes along. The script was endless pages of action description. A lot of the dialogue was (improvised)…
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Short Round Is Indiana Jones’ Best Sidekick
Ke Huy Quan’s Short Round character in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom will always be Indy’s greatest sidekick. As beguiling as Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) might’ve been in Raiders of the Lost Ark or as compelling as Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) might’ve been in four of the franchise’s five films, no supporting character can…
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The Gates review – retrofuturist tale of serial killer’s spirit on the rampage
Horror-thriller is a confusing mashup of science, religion and spiritualism, cursed with a sloppy script and bad actingThis horror-thriller occupies the same Victorian shadowlands as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Penny Dreadful; a not-quite-modern epoch, with its zesty mashup of science, religion and spiritualism, retrofuturist tech and plain retro beliefs. It makes an invigorating…
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Taormina Film Festival Looks to Return to the Center Stage
The 69th Taormina Film Festival boasts an impressive lineup of Italian and world premieres as it seeks to reboot and re-establish its status as a date to watch on the festival circuit. Located in the historical Sicilian town – its visibility recently getting an unlooked for boost with the second season of HBO’s ”The White…