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Ben Kingsley

April 2024

  • Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Helen Mirren

    Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley set for film of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club

    Chris Columbus will direct film adaptation of Pointless presenter’s bestselling mystery book about a group of septuagenarian sleuths

March 2024

  • Sir Ben Kingsley Weekend magazine Sat 7th Feb 2015. Oscar Winners feature. Sir Ben Kingsley photographed by Pål Hansen at Claridge's, London

    This much I know
    Sir Ben Kingsley: ‘Any door that leads the younger generation to me is wonderful’

    The actor, 80, describes his roles in Iron Man 3 and Sexy Beast and wonders if his greatest work is still to come

December 2023

  • Jane Curtin, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ben Kingsley and an apple-eating alien in Jules.

    Jules review – gentle alien comedy from Marc Turtletaub

    Ben Kingsley is superb as a pensioner who finds a flying saucer in his garden in a comedy that doesn’t flinch from themes of ageing and loneliness
  • Goofy and likable … Jane Curtin, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ben Kingsley and Jade Quon in Jules

    Jules review – Ben Kingsley helps an alien in likably folksy twist on ET

    As a widower with dementia, no one believes a UFO has crashed in Milton’s back yard or that he’s caring for an extraterrestrial – until his neighbours find out
  • JULES, from left: Jane Curtin, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ben Kingsley, 2023. © Bleecker Street Media / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2RD982N JULES, from left: Jane Curtin, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ben Kingsley, 2023. © Bleecker Street Media / Courtesy Everett Collection

    ‘Cosmetic surgery? Just wear a hat!’ US sitcom legends Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris on AI, ageing and aliens

    They are veterans of everything from Frasier to 3rd Rock from the Sun. As the duo make the leap into sci-fi with alien caper Jules, they reveal the secrets to a long career – and make a plea for smarter, quieter movies

October 2023

  • Barbara Sukowa standing behind Ben Kingsley with her hands on his shoulders.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Dalíland review – surrealist biopic paints Ben Kingsley into a corner

    Mary Harron’s frustratingly elusive Salvador Dalí portrait has a persuasive central turn but its star has little to get his teeth into

September 2023

  • Funny but inscrutable … Benedict Cumberbatch as Henry Sugar and Ralph Fiennes as the policeman in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s star-stuffed Roald Dahl yarn

    At just 37 minutes, Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade never get beyond the two-dimensional
  • Behind the moustache … Sir Ben Kingsley in Dalíland.

    Dalíland review – Ben Kingsley pitch perfect as the spiky surrealist in artist drama

    Kingsley’s actorly manner nails Dalí in his megalomaniac sunset years in this portrait of the painter and his disintegrating marriage, framed in a coming-of-age tale
  • Benedict Cumberbatch in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s short and sweet Roald Dahl tale

    Anderson’s second Dahl adaptation is a droll 40 minutes of beautifully composed nested stories, with Benedict Cumberbatch as a gambler who learns how to beat the house

May 2022

  • Jacki Weaver … ‘I’ve been acting since I was 15. This November, I’ll have done 60 years.’

    The reader interview
    Jacki Weaver: ‘I can be a cow, but I had a very polite English mother who taught me to be kind’

    The twice Oscar-nominated star of Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook – as well as the upcoming Father Stu – on mangling accents, Vegemite and preteen fanmail

July 2020

  • Richard Wilson as Kabak and Richard Kane as Gramsci in the 1970 production of Occupations at The Stables theatre club, Manchester

    Forgotten plays
    Forgotten Plays: No 6 – Occupations (1970) by Trevor Griffiths

    The collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers – and his response delved brilliantly into the dilemmas of revolution

June 2020

  • Sir Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, centre, with Roshan Seth as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Alyque Padamsee as Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen … Gandhi

    Richard Attenborough’s epic, starring Ben Kingsley as a speechifying version of the Indian independence hero, takes some breathtaking liberties with history

March 2020

  • The Play That Goes Wrong, Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield

    Stars in the wings: theatre's massive debt to am-dram

    Box-office fortunes have been built on lampooning amateur dramatics’ cliche and incompetence, yet these theatres have had the last laugh

September 2019

  • Henry Cavill - Night Hunter - film still

    Night Hunter review – sicko serial killer, meet the vigilante castrator

    Henry Cavill hunts a split-personality murderer in this throwaway throwback to the days of straight-to-video shlock

December 2018

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    Schindler's List at 25: looking back on Spielberg's defining Holocaust drama

    A big-screen rerelease leads to a re-examination of the 1993 Oscar winner which had a profound effect on critics and audiences

August 2018

  • Ben Kingsley in Operation Finale

    Operation Finale review – disappointing Nazi thriller fails to convince

  • Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone in Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast Mandatory Credit: Photo by c.20thC.Fox/Everett / Rex Features ( 416800e ) Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone 'SEXY BEAST' FILM STILLS - 2000

    British gangster classic Sexy Beast to be adapted for TV series

May 2017

  • War Machine

    War Machine review – Brad Pitt goes over the top in Afghan war satire

    Based on real-life events, David Michôd’s take on the war in Afghanistan plays for laughs and misses the mark

June 2016

  • 'Learning to Drive', Film - 2014<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/REX/Shutterstock (4973888l) Sir Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson 'Learning to Drive', Film - 2014

    Learning to Drive review – life lessons

  • You know his Sir name ... Ben Kingsley in Learning to Drive.

    Five best moments
    Ben Kingsley: five best moments

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