Deadline is reporting that Niamh Algar (The Virtues), Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones), Tom Glynn-Carney (Dunkirk) and Ian Hart (God’s Own Country) are set to star in the World War II thriller Burial from writer-director Ben Parker (The Chamber). Taking place during the final days of World War II, the fictionalised […]
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 […]
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 […]
TIFF 2016 Review – Without Name (2016)
Without Name, 2016 Directed by Lorcan Finnegan Starring Alan McKenna, Niamh Algar, James Browne, Olga Wehrly SYNOPSIS: A land surveyor discovers a dark secret deep within a dense forest, in this eco-horror thriller from first-time Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan. For his debut feature film, director Lorcan Finnegan presents an intriguing psychological horror that relies on […]
