So it's too bad that a woefully miscast Nicolas Cage -- sporting a ridiculous Italian accent -- nearly drags it all down. Luckily, John Hurt comes to the rescue with an ace performance. Following up ...

Books change their covers with alarming regularity these days, as publishers target new markets. It is, however, sometimes possible for bestsellers, due to their huge popularity and the publisher’s ...

"Captain Corelli's Mandolin," based on on the best-selling British novel (abbreviated stateside to "Corelli's Mandolin"), will likely not win over many who aren't already fans of the book. What's more ...

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When did fascists become acceptable romantic heroes? The first instance was “The English Patient,” where we were meant to go all swoony at the romantic nobility of Ralph Fiennes’ saving Kristin ...

1. The film of the book, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, opens today. Produced by Working Title - the team behind Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary - and starring Hollywood's favourite babe du jour ...

About two-thirds of the way into the World War II romantic drama Captain Corelli s Mandolin, people weren t only laughing, they were leaving. Maybe Nicholas Cage s Italian accent which wasn t so ...

Its makers wouldn't describe it this way, but Captain Corelli's Mandolin may be viewed as a sort of Pearl Harbor for grown-ups. They both are love stories set against the backdrop of World War II. It ...

Louis de Bernieres's best-selling novel has plucked many readers' heartstrings, and rightly so. It tells the story of a young Greek woman, engaged to an illiterate fisherman, who falls for a cultured ...

Based on the novel of the same name by Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is an epic weepie. Take a whole boxfull of tissues. It is set on the Greek island of Cephalonia, which is invaded ...