Of all the British gangster movies made around the turn of the millennium to recapture the golden days of Get Carter and The Italian Job, one film stood out. Sexy Beast was different from peers such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It was weird, nasty, phantasmagorical and produced a clutch of the most memorable characters of the era. Ben Kingsley was unforgettable (and Oscar-nominated) as the manic and dangerous Don Logan, flying to Spain to twist the arm of Ray Winstone’s sun-worshippin
Of all the British gangster movies made around the turn of the millennium to recapture the golden days of Get Carter and The Italian Job, one film stood out. Sexy Beast was different from peers such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It was weird, nasty, phantasmagorical and produced a clutch of the most memorable characters of the era. Ben Kingsley was unforgettable (and Oscar-nominated) as the manic and dangerous Don Logan, flying to Spain to twist the arm of Ray Winstone’s sun-worshippin
Ramón Massó-Flores marvels at the history of New London, a legacy he is now part of as the first Hispanic president of the 154-year-old Thames Club, the oldest private social club in the state.
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