The subversive sting of Borat is blended with the heart-warming sentiment of Jim Sheridan’s InAmericain Bigga Than Ben: A Russian’s Guide To Ripping Off London. Suzie Halewood’s disarmingly-breezy ...

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Shot on Super 16 film stock for practically nothing, SA Halewood’s debut feature is subtitled A Russian’s Guide to Ripping Off London. Based on Pavel Tetersky and Sergei Sakin’s cult travelogue, it’s ...

Based on a bestselling comic memoir by two young Russians, Pavel Tetersky and Sergei Sakin, SA (Suzie) Halewood's Bigga Than Ben is a sketchy, intermittently funny, enterprising comedy about two young ...

A low-budget comedy about two Russian louts on the make in London - think “Eastern Promises” meets Richard Lester’s “The Knack” - this brisk miniature would normally be just another semi-obscure ...

Bigga Than Ben is a crime-fuelled tale of two likeable but wayward Russian "pieces of Moscow scum" who arrive in London intent on bettering themselves and amassing an easy fortune. But it's not long ...

The presence of Ben "Prince Caspian" Barnes might give this low-budget movie by Suzie Halewood some traction, but I found it relentlessly crass, smug, charmless and unedifying - unsure whether to be a ...

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Based on Sergei Sakin and Pavel Tetersky’s diaries, Bol’she Ben: A Guide To Ripping Off London, this is part Guy Ritchie, part Ken Loach. And let’s face it, that could have been a disaster — but ...

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