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These include the Ray Winstone film Sexy Beast and Che Guevara biopic The Motorcycle Diaries. The production division, which scored successes with Trainspotting and Four Weddings and a Funeral, was closed as an independent company in 2002 after a series of high-profile flops. (BBC News)
'Hot head' earns Beadman a grilling Jun 29, 2006
90 and was beaten seven lengths into third place behind Sexy Beast, formerly trained by Tony Wildman but is now with his great mate Paul Cave. Wildman has put training on hold after recent surgery but returned to the track yesterday because he was "going mad at home". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
In the east, the Cup does not overflow Jun 25, 2006
So where there is a will, as Ray Winstone reminds us in the gangster movie Sexy Beast, there is a way. I don't think the east has been deliberately shut out from the World Cup,' says Jirka Grahl, an east German journalist who writes for Neues Deutschland, based in Berlin. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
more » Jun 23, 2006
Winstone (of "Scum" and "Sexy Beast") shines, as usual, as the conflicted Stanley. Huston (John Huston's son) brings suave irony and that great crooked smile to the genial, remorseless Arthur. (CTNow.com)
Al Gore is a sexy beast Jun 6, 2006
The trailer for An Inconvenient Truth, the new documentary about global warming starring sexy beast Al Gore. The film is essentially a multimedia presentation on the most serious plight facing our planet, with commentary from Tin Man Gore. (The Stanford Daily, CA)
'Proposition' tests moral limits May 27, 2006
Watson ("Breaking the Waves") and Winstone ("Sexy Beast"), two of the industry's most underappreciated actors, also are tremendous, especially in a scene shot in a bathroom, where she recounts a nightmare. A less adventurous director would have been more literal, locking on Watson's face while she sits trancelike in a bathtub to deliver that wrenching monologue. (Contra Costa Times -- Entertainment)
'X-Men: The Last Stand': Mutant Strain, By Kurt Loder May 27, 2006
" It's a fun movie in most ways, and if it doesn't quite achieve the enchantment of the earlier films (I missed Xavier's nifty Cerebro chamber), the millions of people who'll propel it to the top of the box-office chart this weekend probably won't much care. But is this really the end of the X-Men really the last movie? Two offshoot pictures, focused on Wolverine and Magneto, are said to be already in the planning stages. And the logic of this one, in which some important characters are either... (MTV.com)
'X-Men: The Last Stand': Mutant Strain, By Kurt Loder May 27, 2006
The movie is a subtle triumph for Ray Winstone (the aspiring retired gangster of "Sexy Beast"), who plays Captain Stanley, a burly and basically sweet-natured lawman brought over from England to impose order in one particularly dismal precinct of the Crown colony. ("I will civilize this place," he vows. (VHI.com -- Music News)
A mesmerizing and menacing 'Proposition' May 26, 2006
Pitched somewhere between Outback western and totemic bloodbath, ``The Proposition" is to Australia's saga of conquest what a Sam Peckinpah movie is to our own frontier myths: a gory, tender dismantling. It's also a near-masterpiece of mood and menace, and one that deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible. The endless Down Under horizons have discombobulated the film's small English minds, and they deserve to do as much for the audience.Working from a script by cult-rocker Nick Cave... (Boston Globe -- Living)
The brutal justice of 'Proposition (Adam Mazmanian) May 26, 2006
Mr. Winstone, best known to American audiences for his leading role opposite a hyperkinetic Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast," here is the master of the slow burn. Capable of sudden outbursts of violence, he is also committed to the rituals of domesticity, as he seeks to carve out a home life worthy of his proper English wife Martha, played by Emily Watson. (Washington Times)
'I had to keep kissing Angelina Jolie' May 10, 2006
He has always worked on this principle - go for the scripts rather than the dosh - which is probably why he has such a solid filmography, all the way from Scum to Nil by Mouth to The War Zone, Sexy Beast, Last Orders, Ripley's Game ... Career highlights His portrayal of a wife-beater in Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth and an ex-con in Sexy Beast. (Guardian Unlimited)
'The perfect choice to be the face of English football' May 5, 2006
In Sexy Beast, he played a painfully believable gone-to-seed villain on the Costa del Crime. "He's our Gerard Depardieu," said Jeremy Thomas, who produced Sexy Beast ... Career Scum (1979), Quadrophenia (1979), Robin of Sherwood (1986), Ladybird Ladybird (1994), Nil by Mouth (1997), Face (1997), The War Zone (1999), Sexy Beast (2000), Last Orders (2001), Henry VIII (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), The Proposition (2005), All in the Game (2006). (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Great cast revels in thriller Apr 7, 2006
It's not major stuff (Kingsley's role won't make anybody forget his monstrous gangster in "Sexy Beast"), but it's enough to carry their scenes into B-movie coolness. Bruce Willis (left) and Josh Hartnett star in "Lucky Number Slevin.". (The Herald)
The 7th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival Announces 2006 Program Apr 4, 2006
Presenting 350 films from 40 countries, the Newport Beach Film Festival has featured many acclaimed films, including the U.S. premiere of 2006 Academy Award Best Picture "Crash," West Coast premieres of "Mad Hot Ballroom" and "Layer Cake," "Dust to Glory," "Riding Giants," "Sexy Beast," "Spellbound," and "Dogtown and Z Boys." With its pristine coastal location and warm weather, strong network of corporate sponsors, nightly events, music performances and industry seminars, the Newport Beach Film... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The art of the classic heist Mar 18, 2006
Kubrick's The Killing should set you right up, and the last half of Sexy Beast along with the first 20 minutes of Face would make a nice chaser. What makes Firewall particularly disappointing is that Loncraine's spotty "previous" also includes the excellent Bellman And True, which told a similar story - crooks kidnap computer expert's son and force him to commit a huge robbery - only with far more soul and zest. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Mrs. Harris,' prescription for wit well-filled Feb 25, 2006
Kingsley is almost as menacing a predator as he was in Sexy Beast, and Bening - yes, too pretty, and too young for the role - is as exasperating as she was in American Beauty, which is a compliment meant in the best possible way. The supporting players are stellar: sloe-eyed Chloe Sevigny as Jean's younger replacement, Philip Baker Hall and Mary McDonnell as a semi-somnambulant Palm Beach couple, Frances Fisher in a terrific turn as Jean's best friend, and Cloris Leachman all but stealing the... (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
TV: HBO's Mrs. Harris Feb 19, 2006
As played by Ben Kingsley, who minimizes his Oscar-nominated "Sexy Beast" bad-guy role only slightly to play the famous cardiologist, Hy Tarnower is easy to dislike. He charms Jean Harris into loving him, even proposes to her, in his off-center, barely romantic way, and then proceeds to date other women openly and without apology. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA)
Bunting: Best supporting actor is an odd fellows club Feb 14, 2006
Sometimes it's a hammy, sub-par performance from a well-respected actor (Jack Nicholson's you can't HANDLE the truth turn in A Few Good Men is one of the most parodied scenes in cinema), or a portrayal that looked better than it was by virtue of appearing in a fairly bad movie (Al Pacino in Dick Tracy, Andy Garcia in Godfather III), or a portrayal in a fairly good movie that got overlooked in other categories (Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast). . (MSNBC -- Movies)
After playing God ... Feb 10, 2006
Was Freeman intimidated by Kingsley at all, or rather the somewhat obvious revisit to his Sexy Beast persona. What was it like being in the room with that level of hissing, spitting evil. (The Independent, UK)
Only 8 and Morgan's goggle-eyed at fame Feb 7, 2006 Faces of the week Jan 7, 2006
Peniston-Bird directed Craig and fellow English actor Bill Nighy in the short Burst, which came about during a five-year stint working on feature films in Europe including Enduring Love, Sexy Beast and My Summer of Love. While Peniston-Bird laughs at the fact she can boast that she has directed the new James Bond, she said being a Tropfest finalist meant much more. (Australian)
Fox Searchlight Pictures Promotes Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula to Chief Operating Officer Jan 11, 2006
Together, they also oversaw the releases of IN AMERICA, KINSEY, GARDEN STATE, BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, ANTWONE FISHER, ONE HOUR PHOTO, THE GOOD GIRL, THE DEEP END and SEXY BEAST.. Prior to Fox Searchlight, Ms. Utley had worked since 1986 in a variety of capacities for Twentieth Century Fox including most recently Executive Vice President of Marketing for Twentieth Century Fox Film. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
He was a wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, a safe-cracker in Sexy Beast and a tough Confederate soldier in Cold Mountain ... Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast. (BBC News -- UK)
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