Tom Jolliffe looks back at 15 recent films which you might have missed… The last few years seems to have bought an upturn in interesting and engaging cinema. Even as conventional blockbuster fare, which can feel interchangeable, rules the roost, indie and world cinema is beginning to find a place and more acknowledgement. At the […]
Crushin’ | The Flickering Myth Podcast #140
Listen to the latest episode of The Flickering Myth Podcast… Allen, Tori, and EJ attempt to lighten the dour mood by discussing their celebrity crushes. EJ gives his opinion on The Hunt, EJ and Tori discuss the crime drama Calm with Horses, and Max von Sydow is remembered. Email in your questions, feedback etc. to podcast@flickeringmyth.com. […]
Movie Review – Calm With Horses (2019)
Calm With Horses, 2019. Directed by Nick Rowland. Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy, David Wilmot and Anthony Welsh. SYNOPSIS: The enforcer for an Irish criminal family is torn between his loyalty to his bosses and his increasingly complex personal life. There’s something deeply depressing about grey, rural towns in the UK […]
Rust and Bone with Calm With Horses director Nick Rowland | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #69
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, Nick Rowland – director of new drama Calm With Horses – talks about being inspired by the terrific Rust and Bone… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, the […]
Movie Review – Calm With Horses (2019)
Calm With Horses, 2019. Directed by Nick Rowland. Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy, David Wilmot and Anthony Welsh. SYNOPSIS: A boxer-turned-mob enforcer is torn between his loyalty to an Irish crime family and his estranged real one. After starring alongside Florence Pugh in 2016’s devilishly dark Lady Macbeth, the lure of […]
Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan star in trailer for Calm with Horses
Altitude Films has released a poster and trailer for first time feature director Nick Rowland’s Irish crime thriller Calm With Horses starring Cosmo Jarvis (Peaky Blinders) and Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk) and executive produced by Michael Fassbender; check them out here… Ex-boxer Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis LADY MACBETH, PEAKY BLINDERS) is the faithful and violent […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Review – Calm with Horses
Calm with Horses, 2019 Directed by Nick Rowland Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy and David Wilmot SYNOPSIS When former boxer Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong is offered a gig as an enforcer with the Devers drug mafia, life seems on the uptick — but the demands weigh heavily as he makes inroads with […]