Director Michael Curtiz’s likeable but insubstantial 1955 Technicolor comedy, crime, romance movie We’re No Angels is cosy, kind-hearted, larkish entertainment, motoring almost entirely on its considerable star appeal. Humphrey Bogart plays Joseph, a prisoner who escapes at […]
A fit and trim Robert De Niro storms back to a meaty starring part after a series of cameo roles in the mid-Eighties in director Martin Brest’s excellent 1988 mismatched-buddy chase thriller Midnight Run. It […]
Talented Irish director Neil Jordan’s 1989 feature is his first American movie, a remake of director Michael Curtiz’s 1954 movie with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray Joan Bennett and Basil Rathbone. Robert De Niro and Sean Penn play small-time hoods in […]
High Spirits is a gleeful chunk of Irish blarney from the usually heavyweight writer-director Neil Jordan. The critical success of Jordan’s early movies led him from Ireland to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits and […]
‘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 […]
Based on Angela Carter’s short stories, co-writer/director Neil Jordan’s 1984 British Gothic fantasy horror film is an alluring, visionary Freudian fairy tale for grown-ups. Spooky, sexy, gorgeous and unique, this is a marvellous, special film. […]
Stephen Rea stars as Irish saxophonist Danny, who gets in way over his head when he witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. After recalling to the police a […]
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