PICK OF THE WEEK:
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): A 20th-anniversary special edition of Terry Gilliam's expensive, expansive 1988 fantasy epic - the circumstances of whose production are every bit as crazy as the fanciful events depicted onscreen.
John Neville plays the dashing, if delusional (and slightly dissipated), Baron Munchausen, whose feats of heroism and adventure are exceeded only by his extravagant re-telling of them. Encountering gods, monsters and damsels in distress are all in a day's work for the good Baron. Like any good fairy tale, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is imaginative, wistful, splashy and even a little scary, with Gilliam's irreverent sensibilities on full display
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