Tag: Brendan Gleeson
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Michael Collins *** (1996, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 3359
‘In 1916 a rebellion began, to be followed by a guerilla war which would change the nature of Britain’s rule over Ireland forever. The mastermind behind that war was Michael Collins. His life and death defined the period, in its triumph, terror and tragedy. This is his story.’ Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1996 Irish historical biopic…
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In the Heart of the Sea ** (2015, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Tom Holland, Benjamin Walker) – Movie Review
‘The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.’ Ben Whishaw plays the author Herman Melville, who in the 1850s turns up at the home of Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who reluctantly ends up recounting his whaling ship’s sinking by a giant whale when he was a lad back in 1820 in…
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Song of the Sea *** (2014, voices of Lucy O’Connell, David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, Lisa Hannigan) – Movie Review
Director Tomm Moore delivers a sweet, warm and appealing animated treat, fascinatingly mixing Irish folk yarns like The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles 1994) with beautiful visuals in the design style of Japanese works like Spirited Away. Lucy O’Connell provides the voice of Saoirse, a little girl who is the last of the selkies, women…
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Trojan Eddie ** (1996, Stephen Rea, Richard Harris, Stuart Townsend, Aislín McGuckin) – Classic Movie Review 2147
Dour and tedious slice of life set in an Irish small-town, where an ex-con called Trojan Eddie (Stephen Rea) lands himself in trouble when he sets up on his own and clashes with a Mr Big named John Power (Richard Harris), who commands his help in marrying much younger Kathleen (Aislín McGuckin). Depressing, violent and…
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Cold Mountain *** (2003, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Charlie Hunnam, Jena Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1821
After fierce fighting in the American Civil War, wounded Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law) is on a perilous journey home to his North Carolina mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-Civil War sweetheart Ada Monroe (Nicole Kidman). In his absence, Ada struggles to survive and revive her late father (Donald Sutherland)’s farm with the…