John Michael McDonagh’s third film War on Everyone – on iTunes and VOD on February 3rd – isn’t quite as sharp as his previous features, but it’s still a fast-paced bit of lunatic fun. The film follows two corrupt detectives out to frame and blackmail every crook they can – until they encounter someone who might be […]
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Calvary: Let He Who Is Without Sin Perish!
An Irish priest in a country parish is hearing confessions when a voice tells him of how he was abused by a priest as a child and has decide that killing an evil priest wouldn’t get much notice but killing an innocent one would make a point. He gives the priest a week to get […]
Sundance: Fox Searchlight Acquires U.S. Rights to Calvary!
Fox Searchlight has acquired the U.S. – and select international – rights to Calvary, John Michael McDonagh’s follow-up top the The Guard. Calvary stars Brendan Gleeson, who was spectacular in The Guard, as a priest in a small Irish town who is told by someone in confession that he’s going to kill him, ‘Sunday […]