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Shooting for Socrates ** (2014, John Hannah, Art Parkinson) – Movie Review

John Hannah does his best as eccentric Northern Ireland coach Billy Bingham in writer-director James Erskine‘s well-meaning but plodding story of Northern Ireland’s 1986 World Cup campaign. Art Parkinson plays footie-mad nine year old Tommy, […]

Jun, 04

Circus * (2000, John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Eddie Izzard) – Classic Movie Review 2535

Director Rob Walker’s violent 2000 crime thriller focuses on the story of a Brighton hit man who is asked to run an old friend’s casino. But first he must carry out one last contract killing. […]

May, 30

The Innocent Sleep *** (1996, Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Annabella Sciorra, Franco Nero, Oliver Cotton, Graham Crowden, John Hannah) – Classic Movie Review 2478

Director Scott Michell’s 1996 British thriller stars Rupert Graves who plays a real-life English north-country tramp called Alan Terry living homeless outside beside London’s Tower Bridge. One night he witnesses a killing, a mob execution. […]

May, 13

Resurrection Man ** (1998, Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, John Hannah, James Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 2146

Director Marc Evans’s 1998 thriller is an extremely nasty-toned, alienating melodrama, set in 1975 Belfast. It opens a can of worms with its barrel-load of violence and clichés and pours them liberally over the familiar […]

Feb, 02

Sliding Doors **** (1998, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, Jeanne Tripplehorn, John Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 1714

  Gwyneth Paltrow finds that fate can be sealed as fast as a pair of sliding doors and there are two sides to every story. She’s going to live both of them! Writer-director Peter Howitt’s […]

Sep, 27

Pandaemonium *** (Linus Roache, John Hannah, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof) – Classic Movie Review 1699

Director Julien Temple is in his element in this imaginative and worthwhile 2000 British biographical drama as Frank Cottrell Boyce’s intelligent screenplay tells of youthful friendship and betrayal between two world famous poets at the […]

Sep, 21

Four Weddings and a Funeral ***** (1994, Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charlotte Coleman) – Classic Movie Review 370

‘Love means never having to say I do.’ – Ad line. Directed by Mike Newell and written by Richard Curtis in 1994, this sensational British romantic comedy was a worldwide hit and the first British […]

Nov, 06

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