Film Review: The Journey (2016)
byWritten by Simon Storey Originally published 25 October 2017 October 2006. For forty years Northern Ireland had been engulfed in a proxy guerrilla war…
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Film Review: ’71 (2015)
byWritten by Edward Curtis Originally published 17 March 2015 Catholic Nationalists. Protestant Loyalists. The Troubles. Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) is a young British soldier…
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.