Film Review: Mississippi Grind
byWritten by David Nagle Originally published 8 December 2015 There’s little better advertising for the writing of a character and an actor’s performance than…
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Film Review: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
bySteve McQueen really does have a thing for the embattled and imprisoned protagonist. His three feature films to date have focused on an Irish republican leading a hunger strike in Hunger, a sex-addict slipping deeper into the despair of his compulsion in Shame, and now the agonising capture and slavery of freeman Solomon Northrop in 12 Years a Slave.