Recommended Film – ‘Sunshine On Leith’
Sunshine On Leith
by Patrick O’Connor
IF you’ve ever been to Scotland then you will know that The Proclaimers, brothers Charlie and Craig Reid, are a massively popular band there, as well as worldwide.
Their best known songs include ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), ‘Letter from America’ and ‘Sunshine On Leith’.
Calvary – Recommended Film
by Patrick O’Connor
IN the opening scene of this film, an unseen man in a confession box in a small Irish town tells Father James (the superb Brendan Gleeson) that he was badly abused by a priest when he was a young boy.
He goes on so say that priest was now dead but he has decided to get his revenge by killing a good priest, someone completely innocent like he was and that has has chosen Father James.
Recommended Film -‘How I Live Now
by Patrick O’Connor
THE Irish actress Saoirse Ronan was one of the youngest actresses ever to be nominated for an Oscar when she played a key role in the 2007 film Atonement.
Now the 19 year old is the focal point for this love story set against the backdrop of a nuclear attack on Britain.
Recommended Film – A Field In England
A Field In England
by Patrick O’Connor
THIS latest offering by director Ben Wheatley, who had a cult hit last year with the bizarre black comedy Sightseers, seems to have split viewers and critics right down the middle.
Wheatley is renowned for coming up with projects which hop between genres. Prior to Sightseers, in which a caravanning couple go on a murder spree, Wheatley had impressed with two low-budget efforts Kill List and Down Terrace which defied categorisation.
Recommended Film – Shadow Dancer
Recommended film – Shadow Dancer
by Patrick O’Connor
WATCHING this superb British thriller set in Belfast in the 1990s when the peace process was gathering pace, one could not help but feel sadness and despair at all the lives lost in the Northern Ireland conflict.
The story revolves around Colette (played to perfection by Andrea Riseborough), an IRA activist who we first encounter travelling on the London Underground carrying a bag which she later discards in suspicious circumstances.