Word: kingsley
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...Peake's bizarre sensibilities were less cruel. He enjoyed great critical acclaim as an artist during his career - he was commissioned by the Queen Mother to do illustrations for her grandson Prince Charles' nursery in the 1950s - but he was largely ignored by the literary observers of the time. Kingsley Amis once called Peake "a bad fantasy writer of maverick status...
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...
...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...
...February and Israel's tanks pulled back, Ramallah has seen a burst of creativity. In July, a $5 million Palace of Culture, funded by the U.N. and Japan, opened with performances by local poets and musicians. Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim brought his orchestra to the town in August. Ben Kingsley screened a version of Gandhi dubbed in Arabic to promote nonviolent resistance. The town's cinema - the only one in the West Bank - reopened, and musicians founded a school to teach classical Arabic music in Ramallah's Old City. Even as the town's art scene revives, artists run into...