The masterwork of French writer and director Luc Besson, The Fifth Element — which returns to Netflix this month — flies in the face of what we’ve come to expect from blockbuster filmmaking.

"The Fifth Element," released in 1997, is on virtually no one's list of all-time great movies, and yet it continues to run in virtual permanent rotation on cable TV. Since its release, the special ...

The newest movie to make its way back to the big screen is Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, courtesy of reliable re-release distributor Fathom Events. On Sunday, November 17 and then Wednesday ...

It’s what really introduced me to what being a real actor was about.” Play video The Fifth Element was released in 1997, and was a huge success for Besson and Jovovich, along with more ...

And when I first saw it, I loved The Fifth Element – still do, even more so – yet in the cinema foyer afterwards, something about Oldman’s words didn’t sit right with me. (Gary ...