IN 1937 Frank S. Nugent, a film critic for The New York Times, cast an amusing and jaundiced look at what had become a favorite subject for the movies: Movies! ''Before our somewhat astonished eyes,'' he wrote, Hollywood ''has begun shedding its 7 and 70 veils, dropping a shoulder strap here, discarding a wrap there.'' But Nugent, who went on to...
''Hugo,'' an enchantment from Martin Scorsese, is the 3-D children's movie that you might expect from the director of ''Raging Bull'' and ''Goodfellas.'' It's serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing. No one gets clubbed to death, but shadows loom, and a ferocious Doberman nearly lands in your lap....

''Fifty Dead Men Walking,'' a streamlined, adrenalized thriller that is not as deep as it would like to appear, treads a retrospective political tightrope. Loosely adapted by the Canadian director Kari Skogland from Martin McGartland's 1997 memoir (written with Nicholas Davies) of his years as a spy infiltrating the Irish Republican Army, it...
Sir Ben Kingsley (født 31. december 1943) er en engelsk skuespiller af indisk oprindelse, bedst kendt for sin prisvindende rolle som Gandhi i filmen af samme navn.
Ben Kingsley vandt en Oscar for bedste mandlige hovedrolle i storfilmen Gandhi (1982), en rolle for hvilken han også vandt to BAFTA Awards og en Golden Globe Award. Derudover har han for senere filmroller været nomineret til yderligere tre Oscars, to BAFTA Awards og fem Golden Globes.