From the Collection – Bob Hoskins
This Good Friday, English “tough guy” extraordinaire Bob Hoskins stars and startles in a double bill highlighting two of the actor’s many sides. As choleric gangster Harold Shand in The Long Good Friday, he embodies authority (and its inevitable pitfalls), whereas 1984’s Mona Lisa sees him as an out-of-jail underdog: a defenseless individual, vulnerable not despite his explosive masculinity but precisely because of it. – Nace Zavrl