Posts Tagged ‘Brendan Gleeson’
Safe House – Film Review
This high-energy action thriller is so fast paced and good looking it transcends a familiar “deliver the captured bad guy against all odds” plot. Hyper-violent and relentlessly tense, it makes slickly robotic fare like last month’s Haywire look positively wimpy…
Critic’s Choice: James Dawson’s 10 Favorite Films of 2011
We start the year with a look back at the films of 2011. It’s impossible for any critic to see every movie Hollywood releases, or anywhere near the total number of movies produced in other countries. But below are James’s 10 favorites of the nearly 150 films he reviewed in 2011…
The Guard – Director John Michael McDonagh on censoring himself
Eleven years ago, John Michael McDonagh wrote and directed his first film, a short entitled The Second Death, introducing, in a minor role, a young policeman named Gerry. Realizing that he was a strong and funny character, McDonagh always thought he’d like to do something else with him…
The Guard – Film Review
“I can’t tell if you’re really motherf***ing dumb, or really motherf***ing smart.” That’s how the perpetually exasperated American FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) describes the whoring, drug-abusing and hilariously deadpan Irish Sgt Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) in this appealingly offbeat and deliciously dark comedy…
The Guard – Brendan Gleeson on the wilderness of middle-age
Brendan Gleeson has the distinction or working with both Martin McDonagh and his brother John Michael McDonagh. Martin directed Gleeson in the thriller In Bruges and John Michael helmed his new movie, The Guard. Brendan here tells how he put his mark on the new film…
Green Zone – Director Paul Greengrass gets real
This is the third movie director Paul Greengrass has collaborated on with Matt Damon, and at the press junket in New York he spoke about working again with the actor and tackling a new contemporary story…