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James Fox - what members say
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Sexy feast 10 March 2004
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It Was The Machines That Were Magnificent 6 February 2008
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Powerful and absorbing 22 March 2006
James Fox - filmography
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Utopia - Series 1
on DVD
(2013)
Starring: Adeel Akhtar, Alexandra Roach, James Fox
Director: Marc Munden, Marc Munden
Certificate: 
Utopia is a cult graphic novel rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the late twentieth century. Dismissed as the fevered imaginings of a madman by most, and idolised by a handful, only one thing seems certain about Utopia: come into contact with it and you won't be safe for long.
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Margaret
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Lindsay Duncan, Philip Jackson
Director: James Kent
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Feature-length BBC docudrama based on the last years in the political career of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It is 1990 and support for Thatcher (Lindsey Duncan) within the government is beginning to waver. When long-serving politician Geoffrey Howe (John Sessions) resigns over ..read more »
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from 352 members
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Harley Street
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tom Ellis, Oliver Dimsdale, Suranne Jones
Director: Paul Whittington
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The complete first season of the ITV drama series set in London's famous medical district. The series revolves around three doctors who run a General Practice at 192 Harley Street in London, including the strong-minded Martha Elliot (Suranne Jones), passionate ladies' man Robert Fielding (Paul ..read more »
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Colditz
(2 discs)
(2005)
Starring: Damian Lewis, Laurence Fox, Jason Priestley
Director: Stuart Orme
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Television drama miniseries, set in the notorious German POW camp during World War Two. Three men decide to break out of the camp, but only one is successful - Nick McGrade (Damien Lewis) manages to make his way back to Britain, where he is recruited by the intelligence service MI9. When he breaks ..read more »
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Anna Sophia Robb, Noah Taylor, David Kelly
Director: Tim Burton
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Family adventure based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The film centres around an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Most nights in the Bucket home, ..read more »
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The Prince and Me
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Julia Stiles, Eliza Bennett, Miranda Richardson
Director: Martha Coolidge
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Romantic comedy starring Julia Stiles as Paige, a determined college student from the Midwest who meets and falls for Eddie (Luke Mably), a Danish foreign-exchange student. What Paige doesn't know is that Eddie is the son of the King (James Fox) and Queen (Miranda Richardson) of Denmark and has ..read more »
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The Falklands Play
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Patricia Hodge, John Standing, James Fox
Director: Michael Samuels
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Patricia Hodge and James Fox star in this BBC political drama. In 1982, Margaret Thatcher's government sent British forces to war to regain the Falkland Islands from occupying Argentinean troops. Four years later, the BBC commissioned a play on the conflict, only for playwright Ian Curteis's work ..read more »
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The Lost World
(2001)
Starring: Peter Falk, Elaine Cassidy, Tom Ward
Director: Stuart Orme
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The BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. Professor Challenger (Bob Hoskins) has discovered an Amazonian plateau where prehistoric life has continued to thrive. Eager to explore further, he mounts a fresh expedition and returns to discover not only dinosaurs but also highly-..read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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The Golden Bowl
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Madeleine Potter
Director: James Ivory
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Merchant-Ivory adaptation of the Henry James novel about European nobility and American wealth at the end of the 19th century. Italian prince Amerigo (Jeremy Northam) is set to marry American heiress Maggie Verver (Kate Beckinsale), and must therefore break with his longtime mistress Charlotte (Uma ..read more »
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Sexy Beast
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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Gangster Gary Dove (Ray Winstone) has now retired to a villa on the Costa Del Sol, where he lives with ex-porn star wife DeeDee (Amanda Redman) and spends his time lazing by the pool and dining out with friends. All is well until Gary's psychotic former colleague Dan Logan (Ben Kingsley) arrives in ..read more »
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Lover's Prayer
(1999)
Starring: Geraldine James, Nick Stahl, Nick Stahl
Director: Reverge Anselmo
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Coming of age drama set in 1800's Russia, starring Kirsten Dunst and Nick Stahl. Vladimir (Stahl) is the son of middle class parents who take summer residence next door to the house where Zinaida (Dunst) lives with her hard-drinking mother, the Princess Zasyekin (Julie Walters). Hired as page to ..read more »
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Mickey Blue Eyes
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Joe Viterelli, James Caan, Gerry Becker
Director: Kelly Makin
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Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an Englishman working at an upmarket auction house in New York. He falls in love with Gina Vitale (Jeanne Tripplehorn), a schoolteacher from Queens, and proposes to her. However, Gina refuses to get married as she fears that Michael will be corrupted by her ..read more »
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from 8,878 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 »
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from 64 members
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Gulliver's Travels
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Ted Danson, Geraldine Chaplin, Ned Beatty
Director: Charles Sturridge
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This multi-million dollar television adaptation of the classic Jonathan Swift allegory was first transmitted on television over the Easter weekend in 1996 and drew critical acclaim and massive audiences. The story follows the adventures of Dr Lemuel Gulliver (Ted Danson) as he discovers strange and ..read more »
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The Choir
(2 discs)
(1995)
Starring: Oliver Milburn, Nicholas Farrell, Jane Asher
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
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This mini-series, based on Joanna Trollope's novel, explores the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school. It features the singing voice of first-time actor and boy treble soloist Anthony Way, a real-life student at the St. Paul's Cathedral Choral School in London.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Sally Walsh, Tom Courtenay
Director: Kevin Connor
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1995 TV adaptation of the classic Dickens novel. Little Nell (Sally Walsh) lives in Victorian England in the shop owned by her grandfather (Peter Ustinov). However, grandfather is heavily in debt to his wicked landlord, Mr Quilp (Tom Courtenay), who forecloses on all his loans when he discovers ..read more »
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The Remains of the Day
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Lena Headey
Director: James Ivory
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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 »
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from 11,536 members
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Patriot Games - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Sean Bean
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Harrison Ford plays CIA Jack Ryan for the first time in this adaptation of Tom Clancy's thriller, a follow-up to 'The Hunt for Red October'. This time around, Ryan prevents the assassination of a British Earl, killing one of the terrorist assassins in the process. The terrorist's brother Sean ..read more »
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from 296 members
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Hostage
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Talisa Soto, Sam Neill, Michael Kitchen
Director: Robert Young
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John Rennie (Sam Neill) is an uncompromising special forces agent with a taste for exotic women. Now, after years of serving his country, he decides he wants to retire. But when a senior defence analyst is kidnapped by international terrorists, the powers-that-be persuade the weary agent to enter ..read more »
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from 327 members
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Patriot Games
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Sean Bean
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Harrison Ford plays CIA Jack Ryan for the first time in this adaptation of Tom Clancy's thriller, a follow-up to 'The Hunt for Red October'. This time around, Ryan prevents the assassination of a British Earl, killing one of the terrorist assassins in the process. The terrorist's brother Sean ..read more »
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As You Like It
(1992)
Starring: Griff Rhys Jones, Andrew Tiernan, Emma Croft
Director: Christine Edzard
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A modern take on Shakespeare's classic. A woman flees to an industrial wasteland, disguised as a boy to escape the fate threatened of her by her tyrannical uncle and gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
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Perfect Hero
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Nigel Havers, Fiona Mollison, Georgia Allen
Director: James Cellan Jones
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All six episodes of the TV drama starring Nigel Havers as a recovering WWII pilot trying to adapt to life after being shot down. After suffering horrific facial burns when the bomber he is piloting is shot down, Hugh Fleming (Havers)'s once promising future lies in ruins. Abandoned by his ..read more »
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The Russia House
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Blu Mankuma, Roy Scheider, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this adaptation of John le Carre's novel. Russian book editor Katya (Pfeiffer) sends British publisher Barley Blair (Connery) a manuscript written by a Russian scientist. British Intelligence intercepts the manuscript, and convinces Blair to lead them to ..read more »
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The Whistle Blower
(1987)
Starring: Andrew Felindre, Gordon Jackson, Nigel Havers
Director: Simon Langton
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Nigel Havers plays Bob, a Russian translator at G.C.H.Q., in Cheltenham. When a colleague is tried and convicted of spying, paranoia takes over the department. Bob is mysteriously found dead, which shatters his father Frank (Michael Caine), especially when the verdict of accidental death is given. ..read more »
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High Season
(1987)
Starring: Irene Papas, Jacqueline Bisset, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Clare Peploe
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An idealistic photographer (Jacqueline Bisset) lives on a beautiful Greek island which is regularly invaded by hordes of tourists. She enlists the help of an art historian friend to help sell an (allegedly) antique vase to raise funds for her continuing work.
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Comrades - Blu-ray
(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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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A Passage To India
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Victor Banerjee, Judy Davis, Alec Guinness
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 »
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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.
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Pinter's Progress And The Homecoming
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Paul Rogers, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm
Director: Peter Hall
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Two films based on the work of playwright Harold Pinter. 'Pinter's Progress' (2009) is a documentary based around a series of interviews with actors, directors and writers who discuss their experiences of working with Pinter. 'The Homecoming' (1973) is a filmed version of the Pinter play. Made as ..read more »
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Performance
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michelle Breton
Director: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
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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 »
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King Rat
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Tom Courtenay
Director: Bryan Forbes
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George Segal stars as Corporal King 'Rat', wheeler-dealer prisoner of war in a Japanese camp, making money off his fellows and doing deals with the guards. Provost Marshal Tom Courtenay vows to get even with King for his dastardly doings.
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The Servant - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
Director: Joseph Losey
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James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse and employs Dirk Bogarde as a house-keeper. However, Bogarde becomes steadily more pervasive and manages to ..read more »
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The Servant
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles
Director: Joseph Losey
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James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse and employs Dirk Bogarde as a house-keeper. However, Bogarde becomes steadily more pervasive and manages to ..read more »
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She Always Gets Their Man
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Sally Smith, Ann Sears, Terry Alexander
Director: Godfrey Grayson
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British comedy starring Ann Sears as Betty Tate, a London lady who gets more than she bargained for when her cousin comes to visit. From the minute she arrives, the beautiful blonde Sally (Sally Smith) has the attention of all the men, much to the dismay of Betty and her friends at the Kensington ..read more »
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Alan Bennett At The BBC
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Prunella Scales, Janet McTeer, Patricia Routledge
Director: John Schlesinger, Stephen Frears, Richard Eyre
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A selection of BBC plays and observational pieces written by celebrated playwright Alan Bennett. The collection includes: 'A Visit From Miss Prothero', 'Sunset Across the Bay', 'A Day Out', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'Our Winnie', 'An Englishman Abroad', 'Dinner at Noon', 'The Insurance Man', '102 ..read more »
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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...
