Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, and Ian McKellen provide the voices in this spirited comedy of a pet mouse who becomes a hero in a subterranean London world.
Tag: Ian McKellen
‘Gods and Monsters’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
Gods and Monsters (1998), Bill Condon’s first collaboration with Ian McKellen (the star of his Sherlock Holmes-in-retirement drama Mr. Holmes), is also a speculation on the final days of an aging artist whose failing memory haunts him. This one happens to be a real-life figure: James Whale, the debonair, openly gay British director who came […]
Ian McKellan is ‘Mr. Holmes’ – free on Kanopy and Hoopla
Behind a beak of a nose and a face dotted with liver spots, Ian McKellen doesn’t just look old in Mr. Holmes (2015). His 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes quavers with tremors, his face droops like melted wax, and at times the glint in his eyes glazes over like he’s momentarily checked out, dull and absent. As he […]