170: Sexy Beast (2000)

About this episode

The episode discusses the film 'Sexy Beast' and its unique style, performances, and production background.

Alex's final pick for February is here, and for this week's Watchcast he's taking us to the Spanish coast to peek in on the idyllic life of retired thief Gal Dove in Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, a movie that's got a whole lot of unusual style and flavor going on, even outside of Ben Kingsley's ferociously memorable central performance. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 170: Sexy Beast (2000) (00:01:20) - Intro. (00:03:05) - Our final February film for 2026: Sexy Beast! (00:10:57) - How this movie got made. (00:20:58) - Our extremely British cast. (00:26:14) - Sweating, baking, boiling, things of that nature. (00:35:02) - Break! (00:35:26) - We're back, and so is Don Logan. (00:44:10) - The plan. (00:52:00) - Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes! Yes! Yes! (01:06:38) - Don leaves, and then doesn't. (01:14:04) - Onto the heist, but what of Don? (01:24:54) - These are the true heirs to the Wet Bandits moniker. (01:31:03) - Shooting off, are we?" (01:36:52) - Gal survives to suntan another day. (01:39:03) - Final thoughts. (01:44:12) - Housekeeping for next month and next week's movie. (01:45:48) - Outro.

People in this episode

Host: Alex

Topics covered

• film analysis
• British cinema
• heist movies
• character study
• directorial style

Keywords

• Sexy Beast
• Ben Kingsley
• Jonathan Glazer
• British film
• heist
• film discussion
• cinema

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sexy Beast, Jonathan Glazer

Places: Spanish coast

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