Reviewed by GREG KING Director: James Marsh Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aiden Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot. Many films have dealt with the troubles in Ireland, including Paul Greengrass’s powerful Bloody Sunday and Jim Sheridan’s In The Name Of The Father, and the slow burn thriller Shadow Dancer delves into [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rodrigo Garcia Stars: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Pauline Collins, Brendan Gleeson, Janet McTeer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Brenda Fricker. Albert Nobbs gives Glenn Close one of the best roles of her career. The film is set in Dublin at the turn of the century, a time when women were [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Anand Tucker Stars: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow. Sneaking into cinemas without any publicity or media previews is the romantic comedy Leap Year. This is yet another formulaic and cliched romantic comedy that covers all the usual tropes of the odd couple pairing, opposites attract, road movie [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Stars: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca. Five Minutes Of Heaven is an uncompromising look at the after effects of violence and the marks it leaves on men, even decades later. The film begins in the 1970’s, during the violent troubles that wracked Northern Ireland. Anxious to prove [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Boorman Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Jon Voight, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Angeline Ball, Eamon Owens, Eanna McLiam, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Paul Hickey, Tom Murphy. In recent years, director John Boorman’s career has not achieved the dizzy heights of either Point Blank or Deliverance. However, his latest film is [...]
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