what Tony Stark needs most is a hug (Iron Man 3 review)
“I am Iron Man.” When Tony repeats that line here, it’s newly thrilling, and far more intriguing than it previously was.
Ben Kingsley
The Dictator (review)
A stunning failure, certainly compared to Borat and Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly aware of whom the targets of his satiric ire should be, but he couldn’t figure out how to make it work.
Hugo (review)
Martin Scorsese made a 3D kids’ movie that’s about movies. That’s about the love of movies. And it’s steampunky and rollicking and features a cool girl character, too. How is it possible that I won’t love this movie?
retro trailer: ‘Without a Clue’
Another reminder of just how often Sherlock Holmes has been fiddled with, updated, rewound, and reinvented by filmmakers…
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (review)
I saw *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time*? Why can’t I remember anything about it?
Gandhi (review)
Director Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi is one of the most ambitious biographical films ever made, encompassing not just more than half a century of one man’s life but also one country’s struggle for independence. Ben Kingsley is a marvel as Mohandas K. — later called Mahatma — Gandhi, doing a remarkable job of conveying the soft-spoken determination of a man who would come to inspire a messianic fervor among his people and convincingly aging himself 55 years with little more than alterations in his posture and way of carrying himself.
