She Rides Shotgun, 2025.Directed by Nick Rowland. Starring Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Odessa A’zion, John Carroll Lynch, David Lyons, Rob Yang, and Keith Jardine.SYNOPSIS:A girl marked for death, must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows-her father. An adaptation of Jordan Harper’s award-winning novel.For a rather simplistic […]
Holding Brutality and Tenderness in the Same Breath: She Rides Shotgun Director Nick Rowland – Exclusive Interview
In a genre where it’s all too easy to forget about the characters, director Nick Rowland is making thoughtful, more emotionally heavy action films. While watching his sophomore future, She Rides Shotgun, which stars Taron Egerton and newcomer Ana Sophia Heger as an estranged father/daughter duo marked for death by an Aryan gang he went […]
Taron Egerton fights to protect his daughter in She Rides Shotgun trailer
Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for She Rides Shotgun, the upcoming crime thriller from director Nick Rowland.Based on Jordan Harper’s 2017 novel of the same name, the film stars Taron Egerton stars an ex-con who goes on the run to protect his 11-year-old estranged daughter (Ana Sophia Heger) when a corrupt sheriff and […]
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 and Ireland. In the […]
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 director […]
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 the big-budget studio blockbuster […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Review – Calm with Horses
Calm with Horses, 2019Directed by Nick RowlandStarring Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy and David WilmotSYNOPSISWhen 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 his young autistic son. […]
