Ray Winstone was an amateur boxer before acting, and Scum, made for television and then remade for cinema, gave him a borstal inmate of considerable violence at twenty.
Nil by Mouth, for Gary Oldman, is his best performance, playing a domestic abuser without any mitigation offered.
Sexy Beast reversed it, casting him as the retired criminal being terrorised, and The Departed and Beowulf gave him American work. He has worked with Scorsese three times.
Cate BlanchettIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and eighty-five million dollars, seven hundred and ninety million back, and it is still the film that damaged the…
Amanda RedmanJonathan Glazer's 2000 British crime debut. Ben Kingsley terrifying as Don Logan.
Alec BaldwinScorsese's 2006 Boston crime thriller. Two moles, one in the mob, one in the police.
David HarbourFlorence Pugh's Yelena Belova carries a film that arrived too late to matter. The Phase Four opener that established the pattern of decorative empowerment.
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