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Co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos satirises modern romance in an impeccably crafted old-style art movie, recalling some Seventies art house classics, that is catnip for film festivals. With the art movie and the art house apparently things of […]
Director Afonso Poyart’s 2015 serial killer thriller provides a good role for the 77-year-old Anthony Hopkins – it’s the main role, when parts for Sir A are difficult to organise. He grabs it eagerly, not […]
Director Clark Johnson’s 2003 action thriller is a precision item with a finely tooled screenplay by David Ayer and David McKenna, from a story by Ron Mita and Jim McClain, based on the original TV […]
Romance and violence are the main stands of director John Crowley’s intriguing 2003 patchwork of Irish life, which unravels as the lives of a bunch of losers intersect in Dublin. Colin Farrell stars as a petty […]
Fortune normally favours the bold, maybe, but not here. Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 2004 classical adventure epic is certainly brave and ambitious but it is also turgid and laughable. An absurdly miscast Colin Farrell is too […]
‘Rule number one: do not get caught.’ – Walter Burke (Al Pacino). Director Roger Donaldson’s diverting 2003 thriller stars Al Pacino, who enjoys himself hugely in another role that he could play standing on his head, […]
Colin Farrell draws the short straw as middle-aged Irish burglar Peter Lake, who tries to rob a huge mansion on the Upper West Side in a New York winter. He thinks the house is empty, but the […]