Everything tagged with “Brendan Gleeson”

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   Review of The Secret of Kells

   23 December, 2010:

   Remember when you were off sick from school, and because it wasn’t during an official school holiday, the only thing on TV was day time television and S4C? If you were lucky, Channel 4 would be showing some animated films from eastern Europe or somewhere; they smelt vaguely of education but at least they weren’t Pebble Mill. Later in life, you would discover that you’d seen Jan Švankmajer’s Alice and would feel quietly smug. The Secret of Kells is one of those films.

2. Trailer for The Secret of Kells

   29 November, 2010:

   Loving the art style for The Secret of Kells, an Irish-French-Belgian
   production based on an illuminated manuscript from around the year 800.

3. The Village

   22 August, 2004:

   After Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, M. Night Shyamalan brings us a story that’s never quite sure what it’s trying to be. As a horror film, it fails to be scary; as a thriller, it fails to thrill, as a mystery it fails to elicit intrigue and as a love story it fails to engage the emotions. Is there anything that the film succeeds in?

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4. Troy

   27 May, 2004:

   Even if you’ve never read the original poems, you know about the horse. The wooden horse, complete with air holes, hinges, and mysterious voices from within muttering “ouch!” whenever they went over a rock. It’s absurd, and if the Trojans really did fall for it, then they deserved whatever they got.

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