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Posts Tagged "Ben Kingsley"

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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ***½ (2014, Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson, Ricky Gervais) – Movie Review

The British Museum provides the obvious but essential backdrop to the fun as Ben Stiller’s amiable curator-guard Larry Daley and his New York museum gang come to London for the third and final episode. The British […]

Dec, 17

The Boxtrolls **** (2014, voices Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost) – Movie Review

Cute and deliciously quirky animation in which Eggs (voice of Isaac Hempstead Wright), a young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors, tries to save his friends from the evil exterminator Archibald Snatcher. It remains winsome and […]

Sep, 11

Gandhi ***** (1982, Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Mills, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson) – Classic Movie Review 1488

Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s stirring 1982 film Gandhi was a triumph, scooping eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Attenborough and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley’s unforgettable performance as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948). John […]

Jul, 28

Rules of Engagement *** (2000, Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Blair Underwood, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer) – Classic Movie Review 957

Director William Friedkin’s sharply handled, well-acted, sometimes exciting 2000 movie is an intriguing, intelligent and provocative mix of action movie, courtroom drama, ethical discussion and morality tale. An embittered Vietnam veteran-turned-small-time-lawyer, Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy […]

Mar, 22

Dave *** (1993, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Ben Kingsley) – Classic Movie Review 946

The 1989 Oscar-winner for A Fish Called Wanda, Kevin Kline uses all his nimble comedy skills and appears to be thoroughly enjoying himself in every actor’s dream of twin roles. He stars as Dave Kovic, a sweet-natured […]

Mar, 19

Species **** (1995, Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina) – Classic Movie Review 822

Roger Donaldson’s 1995 sci-fi chiller film Species piles on the thrilling, edge-of-seat horror. Natasha Henstridge plays a sensual but deadly creature, who can change from a beautiful woman to a killing machine in a flash. […]

Feb, 13

Sexy Beast – Classic Film Review 674

Ben Kingsley stars as Mr Evil Mobster, aka the incredibly brutal British gangster Don Logan, who arrives from London to talk a retired villain, safecracker Gary ‘Gal’ Dove (Ray Winstone), out of his Spanish villa […]

Jan, 11

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