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James Fox
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James Fox - what members say
review by from West Yorkshire
Sexy feast 10 March 2004
review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
It Was The Machines That Were Magnificent 6 February 2008
review by from Leamington Spa, England
Powerful and absorbing 22 March 2006
James Fox - filmography
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Margaret
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Lindsay Duncan, Ian McDiarmid, Julian Firth
Director: James Kent
Certificate: 
Drama charting Margaret Thatcher's astonishing fall from power, one of the most extraordinary stories of political assassination the world has seen. It took only eleven days for Thatcher to go from being the most powerful woman in the world to the tearful figure in the back of the car. A major ..read more »
 
64%
from 306 members
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Harley Street
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Paul Nicholls, Suranne Jones, Kim Medcalf
Director: Paul Whittington
Certificate: 
Glossy medical drama, HARLEY STREET, follows the tense lives, loves, and scalpel-slicing-action of a lively General Practice on London's prestigious Harley Street. Suranne Jones stars as strong-minded Dr. Martha Elliot, who heads up the Practice's gifted staff, including; Dr. Robert Fielding (Paul ..read more »
66%
from 69 members
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Colditz
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Damian Lewis, Sophia Myles, Tom Hardy
Director: Stuart Orme
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Three prisoners, Jack Rose, Tom Willis and Nick McGrade, embark on an heroic plan to escape from a World War Two POW camp. As Rose And Willis are recaptured by the Germans, McGrade manages to traverse their clutches and travels to London to inform Rose's girlfriend of his capture. So begins a ..read more »
66%
from 626 members
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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Who better to bring Roald Dahl's adored children's story to life than the mastermind behind inventive films like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and BEETLEJUICE? From Tim Burton's opening shot against Danny Elfman's eerie score this CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is recognisably darker than the Mel Stuart-..read more »
67%
from 799 members
Not currently released
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
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Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, ..read more »
62%
from 92,662 members
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The Prince and Me
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, James Fox
Director: Martha Coolidge
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Paige (Julia Stiles) has her future all mapped out. An ambitious pre-med student at the University of Wisconsin, she's vowed nothing will deter her from becoming a doctor. Until she meets Edvard (Luke Mably), the dashing playboy Crown Prince of Denmark who's trying to escape a life he never chose. ..read more »
59%
from 14,072 members
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The Falklands Play
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: John Standing, Patricia Hodge, James Fox
Director: Michael Samuels
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Once considered too controversial to film, Ian Curteis’ FALKLANDS PLAY is finally available to own on DVD. The play replays the events of the conflict from a pro-Thatcher/Conservative angle. Featuring astounding performances and the news footage of the day, THE FALKLANDS PLAY details the power ..read more »
69%
from 224 members
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The Mystic Masseur
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, James Fox
Director: Ismail Merchant
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THE MYSTIC MASSEUR is a delightfully warm, funny drama about Ganesh (Assif Mandvi), an ethnic Indian living in Trinidad. While working as a teacher in Port of Spain, Ganesh learns of his father's death. After returning home to his country village for the funeral, he decides to stay and write books. ..read more »
49%
from 186 members
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The Lost World
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, James Fox, Matthew Rhys
Director: Stuart Orme
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This BBC presentation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD follows an early 20th-century expedition to discover the existence of dinosaurs. Led by Professor George Challenger (Bob Hoskins), the party encounters primitive humans and various dinosaurs. The cast also includes James Fox, Peter ..read more »
67%
from 441 members
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Up at the Villa
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft
Director: Philip Haas
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An impoverished English widow, on vacation near Florence, considers the marriage proposal of an aging British aristocrat who is governor of Bengal. She takes pity on a refugee, and gets in harm's way with an American playboy. After a good deed results in tragedy, she must choose between ..read more »
54%
from 54 members
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Sexy Beast
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Certificate: 
Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
70%
from 14,399 members
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Sexy Beast - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
73%
from 1,521 member
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The Golden Bowl
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale
Director: James Ivory
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THE GOLDEN BOWL is Merchant-Ivory's adaptation of the Henry James novel of romantic torment--the novel James named as his favorite. The title refers to a beautiful crystal bowl encrusted with gold, which conceals a single imperceptible flaw--a small crack. The bowl is a simple, effective metaphor ..read more »
55%
from 1,005 member
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Sexy Beast - HD
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Certificate:
Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
75%
from 247 members
Not currently released
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Lover's Prayer
(1999)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Geraldine James, Nick Stahl
Director: Reverge Anselmo
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A young and very wealthy boy (Nick Stahl, TERMINATOR 3, IN THE BEDROOM) becomes infatuated with the beautiful young woman (Kirsten Dunst, SPIDER-MAN, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE) who has moved in to the place next door for the summer. He is at an age where between childhood and adulthood, and the ..read more »
37%
from 54 members
Currently unavailable
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Mickey Blue Eyes
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Director: Kelly Makin
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Fish-out-of-water comedy tailor-made to the relaxed British mannerisms of star Grant. He stars as Michael Felgate, a dapper art auctioneer, whose romance with a school teacher entangles him in the workings of her mob family. While her father (Caan) accepts Michael wholeheartedly, a misunderstanding ..read more »
55%
from 8,609 members
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Anna Karenina
(1997)
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina
Director: Bernard Rose
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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets ..read more »
63%
from 25 members
Currently unavailable
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Gulliver's Travels
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox
Director: Charles Sturridge
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This acclaimed made-for-television version of Swift's fantasy employs an all-star cast (led by Ted Danson) and superior special effects to portray all four books in the cycle. From Lilliput and Brobdingnag to Laputa and the lands of the Struldbruggs and Houyhnhnms, Gulliver's nine-year odyssey and ..read more »
68%
from 881 members
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The Choir
(2 discs)
(1995)
Starring: David Warner, Jane Asher, James Fox
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
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James Fox, Jane Asher, and David Warner star in this unholy tale adapted by the BBC from Joanna Trollope's best-selling novel. In the sleepy cathedral town of Aldminster, passions are running high. The Dean will stop at nothing to restore his beloved church - even if it means sacrificing the school ..read more »
68%
from 233 members
Not currently released
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The Remains of the Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Tim Pigott-Smith, Lena Headey
Director: James Ivory
Certificate: 
Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the perfect butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly ..read more »
72%
from 10,899 members
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Patriot Games - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Sean Bean
Director: Phillip Noyce
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His days as a CIA analyst behind him, Jack Ryan travels to London to vacation with his family. Outside Buckingham Palace, he is caught in the middle of an attack on a member of the royal family but manages to foil the attempt and dispatch one of the terrorists. The Irish terrorists vow revenge. ..read more »
76%
from 191 members
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Patriot Games
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Sean Bean
Director: Phillip Noyce
Certificate:
His days as a CIA analyst behind him, Jack Ryan travels to London to vacation with his family. Outside Buckingham Palace, he is caught in the middle of an attack on a member of the royal family but manages to foil the attempt and dispatch one of the terrorists. The Irish terrorists vow revenge. ..read more »
70%
from 13,912 members
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Hostage
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sam Neill, James Fox, Talisa Soto
Director: Robert Young
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John Rennie, a special forces agent is sent to recover an abducted defence analyst from Argentina. Arranging the kidnapping of the chief suspect's children and executing the terrorists should have seen the job finished. But instead John has questions he would like the answers to and strangely his ..read more »
48%
from 317 members
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Perfect Hero
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Nigel Havers, Georgia Allen, James Fox
Director: James Cellan Jones
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Nigel Havers stars as RAF bomber pilot Hugh Flemming in the six-part drama series A PERFECT HERO. Flemming suffers horrific burns when his plane is shot down, and consequently finds his life and relationship crumbling around him. Abandoned by his girlfriend and unable to fight alongside his ..read more »
69%
from 44 members
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The Russia House
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Fred Schepisi
Certificate:
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Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer ignite the screen in this enchanting adaptation of John Le Carre's suspenseful espionage drama. Connery portrays Barley Blair -- a lonely, middle aged, hard-drinking, London publisher -- who has a love for all things Russian. While in Russia, Barley captures the ..read more »
62%
from 997 members
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The Mighty Quinn
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Denzel Washington, James Fox, Mimi Rogers
Director: Carl Schenkel
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A wealthy businessman is brutally murdered. When the chief of police discovers that his closest childhood friend is the prime suspect, he is sure it is a set-up. The results of his investigation could have grave consequences.
55%
from 523 members
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The Whistle Blower
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers
Director: Simon Langton
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The compelling mystery surrounds a talented linguist who works at a government information-gathering service in England and whose accidental death haunts his father. Unraveling the truth about his son's death, he discovers sinister, covert dealings that threaten the England he has always believed in.
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from 447 members
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High Season
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas
Director: Clare Peploe
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Katharine is a talented photographer living on an idyllic Greek island. Unfortunately, the only thing that's clicking is her camera, until she finds herself surrounded by crazies, spies, smugglers, love-sick tourists, a teenage daughter and an ex-husband.
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from 111 members
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Comrades - Blu-ray
(1986)
Starring: Keith Allen, David Atkins, Stephen Bateman
Director: Bill Douglas
Certificate: 
Bill Douglas’ beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia, Douglas has created a film rich with carefully ..read more »
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from 148 members
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Comrades
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Keith Allen, David Atkins, Stephen Bateman
Director: Bill Douglas
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Bill Douglas’ beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia, Douglas has created a film rich with carefully ..read more »
63%
from 451 members
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Absolute Beginners
(1985)
Starring: David Bowie, Patsy Kensit, Eddie O'Connell
Director: Julien Temple
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The film centers on Colin, an 18-year-old with a talent for photography and a fondness for the neon nightlife of British jazz clubs. He also is in love with Crepe Suzette, an impulsive, ambitious young beauty who abandons him after attracting the attention of a powerful fashion designer. Depressed ..read more »
48%
from 28 members
Currently unavailable
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A Passage To India
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis
Director: David Lean
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A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set ..read more »
70%
from 2,659 members
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Anna Pavlova
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Galina Beliaeva, James Fox, Roy Kinnear
Director: Emil Loteanu
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This films charts the extraordinary life of the sickly little girl from a Russian village who becomes the world's most famous ballerina. Based on the real life story of the ballerina Anna Pavlova. It features incredible locations and an epic story.
49%
from 27 members
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Nancy Astor
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Lisa Harrow, Pierce Brosnan, Charles Dance
Director: Richard Stroud
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A lavish nine-part series about the life and times of the child born Nancy Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, on 19th May 1879 who would become the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, introduce a Private Member's Bill that raised to 18 the age qualification for buying alcohol and ..read more »
59%
from 48 members
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Performance
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Michelle Breton, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg
Director: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
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Even in an era of cinematic experimentation, Performance stands out as a visually daring major-studio film that deals with questions of sanity and identity rarely touched on in mainstream filmmaking. The elements of Performance certainly looked attractive to studio executives at Warner Bros. -- a ..read more »
66%
from 2,964 members
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
Director: George Roy Hill
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This characteristically spectacular Ross Hunter musical production, a parody of the films of the 1920s, stars Julie Andrews as the eager young Millie Dillmount. She arrives in New York City in the 1920s intent on a job as a secretary with a rich, handsome, eligible boss. Deciding to adopt the ..read more »
67%
from 1,544 member
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King Rat
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Inside a Japanese POW camp during World War II, an American prisoner runs a black market operation for the benefit of his fellow captives, and among his "merchandise" he includes rats, breeded to supplement prisoners' food rations.
68%
from 501 members
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The Servant
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles
Director: Joseph Losey
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In THE SERVANT, Joseph Losey's 10th film made in the U.K. after his 1951 blacklisting in the U.S., the powerful undercurrents of class struggle and sexual repression erupt through the very British patina of civility to expose the poisoned undercurrents of a class-based society.
77%
from 660 members
Not currently released
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She Always Gets Their Man
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Terry Alexander, James Fox, Ann Sears
Director: Godfrey Grayson
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This British sex farce comes to us courtesy of the prolific Danzinger brothers. A young vamp sets her sights on a wealthy gent. The girl's roommates decide it's time for her to lose out for a change. They hire a ham actor to pose as Mr. Moneybags, thereby rescuing the real millionaire from a costly ..read more »
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from 10 members
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James Fox facts
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...to show that with a cast including Ray Winstone, Sir Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, James Fox and Amanda Redman we Brits can still churn out good movies. Ian McShane can fl...
