Bronson brings in the big guns!

Assassination is one of Charles Bronson’s later films co-starring (you guessed it) real-life wife Jill Ireland.

Bronson is a secret service agent assigned to protect the First Lady of the United Stated (Ireland with a fairly wild afro going on). Her character doesn’t much like Bronson, or he her thinking he should have been given a much more important duty.

Someone then tries to kill the First Lady which sends everybody scuttling about and Bronson trying to track down the source of the assassination plot.

I think by about 1987 Charles Bronson’s career was starting to wane and this is not one of his best films, but however it is still very accessible if you are a big fan of his films as I am.

The love triangle: Doctor, Mad King, Queen

An absolute masterpiece of drama and spectacle chronicling the marriage of Caroline Matilda of the UK to the mad King Christian VII of Denmark in the 18th Century.

The King is somewhat disinterested in his new bride who he often refers to as “mother” (then wonders why he is not potent with her!) preferring common street prostitutes. In order to deal with a King that is quite obviously bark, stark raving mad the court employs the services of a personal physician to treat him. His doctor (played by popular Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen) befriends the king and becomes his closest confidant.

All travels well until Mads starts an affair with the Queen ala Rasputin and the inevitable downward spiral begins.

Its very hard to fault this period piece, it authenticity and Mise en scène make it a must watch on there own, that’s before we even look at its very interesting and enlightening narrative.