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Despite the constant presence of dead children and Morgan Freeman, everything about this movie is snappy. The names, for example, are exceedingly snappy. Bruce Willis goes by the candy-bar handle of Mr. Goodkat, and Freeman and Ben Kingsley are, respectively, The Boss and The Rabbi. The dialogue is even snappier: almost every question asked in this movie is answered with a snarky rewording of that question. (Examples: “Why do they call him The Rabbi?” “Because he’s a rabbi.”—Repeat 400 times...
...filmmakers also erred in taking the climactic and unexpectedly unique plot twist and unravelling it over the last quarter of the film, letting out whatever steam might have been collected along the way. Two other misdemeanors are a) continuing the trend of crediting Ben Kingsley as “Sir” for lame action movies and b)playing a rap song over the credits that summarizes the plot, “Mighty Ducks” style...
...sugar substitute, was invented by Brooklynite Benjamin Eisenstadt, who also created sugar packets, Butter Buds and Nu-Salt. His creativity may be genetic: his grandson is the gifted pop-culture historian Rich Cohen. In his new book, Sweet and Low, Cohen tells the rollicking saga of Grandpa Ben's business, "taken over and stripmined by hooligans." The battle over this vast family fortune leads to feuds between siblings, corruption, lawsuits and the ultimate disintegration of the clan. It is Cohen's good fortune to be on the side of the family that was disinherited. Sweet revenge is the energy behind...
...answer is, very. The business of the film is to explain why this amiable hunk is being circled by spooky Mr. Goodkat (a tight-lipped Bruce Willis), a wise-guy cop (Stanley Tucci) and two crime lords (Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman). To call the film's plot labyrinthine is to understate the case. To say it works out with complete plausibility is to overstate it. Still, the story never runs completely off the rails and is, in any event, just a pretext for a lot of very sharp badinage by Jason Smilovic--a screenwriter who would have been...
...From the moment the puck dropped, Maine controlled the tempo. Stringing together a series of tape-to-tape passes and maintaining an aggressive forecheck, the Black Bears forced Harvard to spend the majority of the opening frame protecting its own net. On the other side of the ice, goaltender Ben Bishop and the Maine defense moved the puck quickly out of their zone, limiting the Crimson to seven shots in the first period. “We weren’t able to establish our forecheck, [and] we weren’t able to sustain any type of pressure...