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Film review | The Guard – Good cop, bad cop, stupid or smart? Brendan Gleeson’s garda keeps you guessing

Posted on 20 August 2011 by Jason Best

After the success of 2008’s In Bruges, here’s The Guard, another wickedly dark, Irish-accented comedy thriller from a writer-director named McDonagh. At the helm this time is John Michael McDonagh and he lives up to younger brother Martin’s feature debut … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | A triple dose of terror from Dario Argento on DVD

Posted on 22 March 2010 by peter

Regarded as one of Dario Argento’s last masterpiece horror films, Terror at the Opera is a Hitchockian homage to The Phantom Of The Opera, starring Chariots of Fire actor Ian Charleson, in his final film appearance before his death from … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Harrowing film portrait of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands – Hunger

Posted on 31 October 2008 by Jason Best

Artist Steve McQueen (no relation to the screen legend) ventures out of the art gallery and into the cinema with Hunger, a controversial movie about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands that’s been praised to the heights and damned to the … Continue reading →

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