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The Captive earned a total of $1 million domestically and another $1 million outside of Canada. The Captive was Egoyan's strongest opening week as of that release ($407,804). The Captive has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 28% based on 53 reviews, with an average score of 4.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Wan and lugubrious, The Captive represents another atmospheric, beautifully filmed misfire from director Atom Egoyan." The film's Metacritic score is 36 out of 100 based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Sam Adams remarked that many critics who watched the premiere compared it unfavourably with Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners, released a year earlier, but…
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60 of 63 · most liked firstI am watching the MST3K #412: Hercules and the Captive Women. I forgot how often people refer to "Uranus" in this movie. "The mystic secrets of Uranus." "I am dedicated to Uranus." I was doing ok until "The blood of Uranus is eternal." And they do pronounce it "Yer Anus." Cracking up. #Maturity
unlabelledView post →You think i wouldn't pay a whole raft of talented people to film three seasons of The Captive Prince
unlabelledView post →Day 4 of #TIFF50 📽️: a doc about a war photographer, and a reimagining of Cervantes’ transformation. Love+War (Dirs. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin) The Captive (Dir. Alejandro Amenábar) My thoughts will be on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/LeesahSea/
unlabelledView post →I watched The Captive 🎬 last night & enjoyed it #Filmsky #Movie
unlabelledView post →The Captive (1915). #SilentFilm
unlabelledView post →While ALBERT R.N. was filmed on a set built on Headley Heath, THE CAPTIVE HEART gave its stars an authentic backdrop - the freshly vacated camp at Marlag. Worlsey may not have been involved in filming "his" war, but there's no escaping his connections with the film. 🧵 7/8
unlabelledView post →Great mini-series of films from @espanfilmf.bsky.social for @festivalofeurope.bsky.social on 7, 9, 10 May. Showing Romería, from Carla Simón; The Captive, by Alejandro Amenábar; and Always. At @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social Tickets now available at: edinburghspanishfilmfestival.com/2026/03/fest...
unlabelledView post →Watch the movie “The Captive” with Ryan Reynolds. Then picture the child rapist in office and all he, Epstein, and all the other sick monsters must have done. That man need to be in jail. They all do
unlabelledView post →From the post-screening World Premiere of The Captive (El cautivo), directed by Alejandro Amenábar. #TIFF50
unlabelledView post →A big day for movie releases,not sure there are any best of career winners. SASSAwards has an award for train wreck these might be winners in that category Three Amigos-1986 Stuck on You-2003 Something's Gotta Give-2003 The Day the Earth Stood Still-2008 The Captive-2014 #sassawards#moviesky#filmsky
unlabelledView post →Born on this day on 3/31/1972: Alejandro Amenabar- talented and award-winning Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer, acclaimed for films THESIS, OPEN YOUR EYES, THE OTHERS, THE SEA INSIDE, AGORA, WHILE AT WAR, and THE CAPTIVE
unlabelledView post →📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 11 Watch a movie celebrating International Women's Day. This week I watched: Anatomy of Hell (2004) A Real Young Girl (1976) Sister (2012) The Captive (2000) Breathe (2014)
unlabelledView post →Jack Warner (Captain Maddox) had also been filmed behind the wire, with a role in THE CAPTIVE HEART (1946). Shot months after the end of the Second World War, that film was also based on Guy Morgan's work - his breakthrough novel of the same name. 🧵 5/8
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with 1 book, 1 film, and 1 TV show. Book: The Captive Prince, C.S. Pacat Film: Clueless (1995) TV Show: The Untamed (2019)
unlabelledView post →The 50th Toronto International Film Festival #TIFF50 revealed the first World Premieres. Alejandro Amenábar’s The Captive, Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers, Sung-hyun Byun’s Good News, Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks read more: vimooz.me/li7kcv
unlabelledView post →Some of my favorites! ✨️Anime: Violet Evergarden 🎮Game: Dishonored 2 📖Book: The Captive Prince (by C.S. Pacat) 🎧Musical Artist: Jorge Rivera-Herrans 📽Favorite Movie: Spirit Stallion of Cimerron, Sailor Moon Super S 🎬Favorite TV show: Arcane 🎨Favorite Color: Green 🦖Favorite Dinosaur: Plesiosaurus
unlabelledView post →While ALBERT R.N. was filmed on a set built on Headley Heath, THE CAPTIVE HEART gave its stars an authentic backdrop - the freshly vacated camp at Marlag. Worlsey may not have been involved in filming "his" war, but there's no escaping his connections with the film. 🧵 7/7
unlabelledView post →Sam Kydd also found his time behind the wire useful, using it to win a small part in THE CAPTIVE HEART (1946). He'd go on to earn scores of film credits and won praise as an author, recounting his wartime experiences in his memoir, For You the War is Over. 🧵 7/9
unlabelledView post →MST3K Rewatch Project: Hercules and the Captive Women. I really like this one. Love GPC in the theater, Lawn Baby chasing Frank around, and that creepy blonde guy in the movie, yeesh! Lots of funny.
unlabelledView post →26 March 1952: Crime film noir ‘The Captive City’, directed by Robert Wise, premiered in New York City. Rotten Tomatoes score: 70% Letterboxd score: 3.3 (66%) #FilmSky #NoirSky #TodayAtTheMovies
unlabelledView post →Newest acquisition for the #peplum library: Hercules and the Captive Women - a new version from @filmmasters.bsky.social ! It just came in the mail today - always great to get a new #SwordAndSandal flick. A year or so ago a version was put out by Film Detective. Here they are side by side.
unlabelledView post →Olives ruin everything they touch. Olive oil is fine though. The Captive. I watched this one with a friend and it was so boring, we sped the movie up just to finish it faster. Christmas music in general. The only exceptions being the Charlie Brown Christmas OST and Dear Santa by The Weather Girls.
unlabelledView post →I've watched it. I did not dare to raise my hopes and the dreadful French title was a stark reminder of quite how corny it could get. Well... I found Amenabar's El Cautivo/The Captive absolutely awesome. Historically, it's very good but about all it's a great movie about the power of storytelling
unlabelledView post →They did change speed as they shot the film as well. I am not 100% sure why these things happened but I saw the projection notes for THE CAPTIVE GOD (1916), for example, and it explicitly instructs the projectionist to speed things up for the big fight scene at the end.
unlabelledView post →Thanks Martin! I think we tend to forget that this generation of actors often served. An incredible example is that of Sam Kydd, a PoW in Stalag XXA, who months after his liberation would appear as a PoW in the film ‘The Captive Heart’ (1946)
unlabelledView post →PTA directing a kidnapping noir film with Adam Sandler, Emma Stone, Ewan McGregor, and Ed Harris? Okay, let’s make this real. The Captive — Quietly excellent, 75/100, $172M tentpolegame.com/m/QXSZvUmOnRcM
unlabelledView post →SEPTEMBER 5 - On This Day in DC & Movie TV The Amazing Spider-Man: The Captive Tower (1978) DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Fungus Amongus (2021) (No movie releases) #OTD #SpiderMan #LegendsofTomorrow
unlabelledView post →"Hercules and the Captive Women" is surprisingly good. Hercules is acting his loincloth off (nearly literally), the evil queen is film noir-ing it up, and the movie actually has things to say about things. OTOH, so far "captive women" are not really in evidence. Maybe a plus? 🧵
unlabelledView post →El Cautivo (The Captive) is a well-made, quiet film about the young Cervantes imprisoned in Algiers with a surprising amount of gayness. [Spanish with English subtitles]
unlabelledView post →Last nights first watch #film was Robert Wise's stylish #FilmNoir crime thriller The Captive City (US, 1952) starring John Forsythe in full-on Henry Fonda mode. Recommended to fans of the genre. letterboxd.com/film/the-cap... #50sCinema #blackandwhitefilm #FiftiesFilm
unlabelledView post →Today - Sword & sandal flick HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN via Narrow Margin and THE SECRET AGENT arrives at Paradise, GROUNDHOG DAY for Groundhog Day at Revue, a MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM double bill and THE LEGO MOVIE at select Cineplex locations, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep
unlabelledView post →Kefauver also appeared in introductions to some movies inspired by the hearings, such as "The Captive City." For more on "The Captive City" and Kefauver's appearance in it, read here: estes-kefauver.com/2024/03/14/k...
unlabelledView post →The wealthy web of pedophiles is wide and deeply-funded, as shown in this Ryan Reynolds movie "The Captive". It is not surprising the lengths that these wealthy pervs will go to to cover up their crimes and protect their names/wealth. Release the Epstein files, GOPs! www.amazon.com/Captive-Ryan...
unlabelledView post →Before watching Amenabar's The Captive, I had read or re-read several books about the 16th-century history of North Africa and Spain. I even had a look at some articles about Cervantes as a writer but I was blindsided. I wasn't ready for the extreme homoerotic orientalism uzing from the film
unlabelledView post →“Jealousy, which is blindfold…” #proust #thecaptive #ParisInJuly2025 When I shared my pile of possible reads for Paris in July, at the end of June, you might have noticed a particularly chunky book near the bottom; this was the third volume of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past" which contains two of the novels - "Sodom and Gomorrah" and "The Captive". Now, I read S&G back in February (with a review in……
unlabelledView post →Ten (Kiarostami/Akbari) A Prophet (Audiard) No Home Movie (Akerman) The Captive (Akerman) La Commune (Watkins) As I Was Moving Ahead (Mekas) Caché (Haneke) White Ribbon (Haneke) When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Lee)
unlabelledView post →Well, ya can't win them all. Even with Elvira's help, some features simply don't work. . "Hercules & The Captive Women" (1961) as presented by Elvira on Movie Macabre [Anything with Elvira is still fun though] #Elvira youtu.be/KHlaQSB1mWg
unlabelledView post →Ohh, I saw & liked Why Change Your Wife a couple years ago but didn't remember it was DeMille! I've seen the silent Lubitsch/Negri Carmen - didn't know there was also a silent DeMille film. I'll look into that, Chicago, & maybe The Captive. Thanks!
unlabelledView post →I spent this movie angry and sickened once again because #peoplearetherealmonsters. It is worth the watch for sure, and it is a good movie. But the subject matter was hard for me to handle. #ryanreynolds #thecaptive #realhorror
unlabelledView post →Jack Warner (Captain Maddox) had also been filmed behind the wire, with a role in THE CAPTIVE HEART (1946). Shot months after the end of the Second World War, that film was also based on Guy Morgan's work - his breakthrough novel of the same name. 🧵 5/7
unlabelledView post →The full alternate title is actually, MATTHEW, CLAW OF TERROR. If I can't remember the movie I'm also going to screw up other facts about it at 7 a.m. in the morning for sure. Also, it's known as THE CAPTIVE FEMALE. Huh? I'm tired.
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Captive 4K (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Thriller) (iMDB) 6.2 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, Alexia Fast
unlabelledView post →The Captive (2000) Directed by Chantal Akerman https://onesheet.org/movie/the-captive-2000/
unlabelledView post →Good God! We are in the 'Captive State' movie. youtube.com/shorts/2uMkU...
unlabelledView post →Went to see The Captive (Il Captivo) that’s showing as part of the Spanish Film Festival - all about the time Cervantes was imprisoned in Algiers and which inspired Don Quixote - absolutely brilliant, highly recommend
unlabelledView post →My new Film Project post for paid subscribers is up. In this one, I cover Basil Dearden's THE CAPTIVE HEART and Paul Newman's THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS! billryan64.substack.com/p/good-luck-...
unlabelledView post →New film reviews posted up on Letterboxd: 2026-06-26 Supergirl (2026)★★★¾ The Bride (1985)★★★½ A Brighter Summer Day (1991)(Taiwan)★★★ The Captive City (1952)★½ Brodre (aka Brothers)(2004)(Denmark)★★★ Cohen and Tate (1989)★★★ The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)(Iran)★★★★ The 'Burbs (1989)★★★ (1/2)
unlabelledView post →The Captive stars Julio Pena as the author Miguel de Cervantes and Alessandro Borghi as Hasan Bajaand and is directed by Alejandro Amenabar. The film portrays the period when wounded navy soldier Miguel de Cervantes was taken captive in 1575 to the coastal city of Algiers in northern Algeria…
unlabelledView post →🎞️ About the Film: "When you are captured by Barbary pirates in 1575 and forced into a prison without an end in sight to your captivity, how does your mind adapt to those circumstances? Oh, and the prison is inside the courtyard of a palace. The film The Captive (El cautivo) portrays such a scenario.
unlabelledView post →Be sure to check out these five amazing narrative programs during our upcoming 6th annual First Cut LGBTQ+ Spring Film Festival: 🎞️ 3. Perro Perro 🎞️ 6. The Captive (El cautivo) 🎞️ 7. She’s the He 🎞️ 10. Love Letters (Des preuves d’amour) 🎞️ 11. Bookends
unlabelledView post →The movie, "The Captive"(2014) is a decent movie about pedophile sickos. Starring Ryan Reynolds, it's very troubling. Imagine what a sick group of billionaires could set up. Maybe the entire Republican party is the captive. It would explain a lot. On Amazon prime video for another 6 days.
unlabelledView post →‘The Captive’ Review: ‘Don Quixote’s’ Author Becomes the Hero in a Handsome Historical Fiction https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/the-captive-review-don-quixote-1236566081/
unlabelledView post →Movie a Day Project 2025: Day 268 The Captive ('La Captive', Chantal Akerman, 2000) Starring: Sylvie Testud, Stanislas Merhar, Olivia Bonamy, and Liliane Rovère #filmsky
unlabelledView post →I know I shouldn't but I'm sooooo stoked about this one: The Captive. A film about the time spent in Algiers by Cervantes (of Don Quixote fame) as an hostage of the Barbary pirates after his capture at sea on his way back from the campaigns that followed Lepanto. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5zW...
unlabelledView post →SEPTEMBER 5 - On This Day in DC & Marvel On-Screen TV episodes The Amazing Spider-Man: The Captive Tower (1978) DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Fungus Amongus (2021) No Movie releases #OTD #TheAmazingSpiderMan #LegendsofTomorrow
unlabelledView post →International #trailer for new #film #TheCaptive, which tells the story of #DonQuixote author #Cervantes 's capture and ransom by pirates. youtu.be/2oNSIH8Is8o?...
unlabelledView post →My ½★ review of Hercules and the Captive Women on Letterboxd boxd.it/9pafwD
unlabelledView post →On this day in movie history: The Captive City directed by Robert Wise released April 11, 1952. Cast: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crossland, Victor Sutherland, Ray Teal, Martin Milner, Geraldine Hall, Hal K. Dawson, Ian Wolfe, Gladys Hurlbut, Jess Kirkpatrick. #Noir
unlabelledView post →A hypnotic exploration of erotic obsession and jealousy, inspired by Proust’s The Prisoner. 🌟 Followed by a live discussion on 30 March with film critic Roberto Oggiano. 🎥 Don’t miss this cinematic gem! 🎬 The Captive 🗓️ From 30 March at Ciné Lumière 🎟️ www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-c...
unlabelledView post →Dived back into the "Elvira's Movie Macabre Coffin Collection" set with Hercules and the Captive Women, which was about as good as I expected (video Friday) @therealelvira.bsky.social
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