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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Movie Review – War on Everyone (2016)
War on Everyone, 2016. Directed by John Michael McDonagh. Starring Michael Pena, Alexander Skarsgard, Theo James, Tessa Thompson, Stephanie Sigman, Caleb Landry Jones, Malcolm Barrett, David Wilmot and Paul Reiser. SYNOPSIS: Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister […]
