This film has kind of a tough sell and almost pulls it off. It’s about a Northern Irish man (Jim Sturgess) working for the English as their snitch in the IRA. He tells them when bombs are going to go off, assassinations are going to happen, who’s who and what’s what. The story is a […]
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In the Loop
See a junior minister, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander), in Britain’s government put his foot in it, talking out of turn about a “foreseeable” war. Now, you don’t see the British PM busily rationalizing an incursion, alongside America, into some unlucky country (in fudged Blair-Bush fashion). See Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi), the begrudging Scottish director of […]
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Goodbye Solo
Solo’s the name of Goodbye Solo‘s protagonist—a friendly Senegalese taxi driver (Souleymane Sy Savane). Solo’s also the way William (Red West), the film’s other main character—a cantankerous man quietly determined to commit suicide—wants to die. The men’s lives co-mingle when William hires Solo for a one-way cab ride to a precipice called Blowing Rock. Solo […]