Stacked with an Oscar-winning cast and crew, complete with a James "Titanic" Horner score, "The Four Feathers" is willfully posed to make Academy voters weak in the knees, but those looking beyond the ...

"The Four Feathers" is a dull rendition of the old warhorse about honor lost and redeemed in Africa during Britain's high colonial days. Indian helmer Shekhar Kapur's follow-up to his 1998 Oscar ...

It has been a common trend of late that film directors who make a huge impact on the cinema with their debut movie cannot copy the same success with their follow-up. Look at what happened to John ...

Heath Ledger may be making news these days for sporting a freshly-buzzed dome and a new Aussie girlfriend who’s 10 years his senior, ”Mulholland Drive”’s 33-year-old blond bombshell Naomi Watts. But ...

The Criterion Collection has some of the most anal-retentive fans in the history of collecting. So I wonder how fans might stock 3 Women and The Four Feathers. Perhaps just by the number in the ...

A.E.W. Mason's novel The Four Feathers has been filmed several times, with movie adaptations dating back to 1915, but the story's emphasis on the battle between a global superpower and Muslim zealots ...

Director Shekar Kapur's The Four Feathers is, for all intents and purposes, an epic. It has Victorian grandeur, an elegant love story and, a foremost ingredient, armies charging across the desert.

The question of whether the world really needs another version of The Four Feathers is convincingly answered by Shekhar Kapur's stirring approach to the venerable tale of Empire and honour. Boasting a ...

It’s a shame that Djimon Hounsou is so skilled at playing the beefy, loincloth-wearing African sidekick to many a white man. While it could probably be a lucrative career (any day now he’ll make a ...

As much as I believe in allowing kids to read what they want, if I had a son I’m not sure I’d want him to go anywhere near “The Four Feathers.” A.E.W. Mason’s novel has been around for a century and ...