Roosevelt, is another good movie about a political figure. Nelson Mandela was the subject of the acclaimed 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Other notable movies featured in this roundup include Patton, The King's Speech, and The Ides of March. Which political true stories are th...
an ordinary Irish girl who has shocked her Great Famine-afflicted village by surviving without food for months. Part period drama, part folk horror, ‘The Wonder’ has a slightly undercooked story, but Florence Pugh is remarkable as always as a woman of faith haunted by the inexplicable nature...
Daly recently had a domestic hit with the Famine drama Black 47, but we've gone for his quieter film about a couple of young Dublin neighbours who light out for the territory at Christmas time. The director draws beautiful, unhurried performances from Kelly O'Neill and Shane Curry. A minor...
the voice of amacawin the animatedRio(2011) and its sequel,Rio 2(2014). Hathaway then joined the ensemble cast of Nolan’s space dramaInterstellar(2014), playing a scientist attempting to locate a habitable planet after Earth is rendered unlivable by war and famine. She returned to comedy ...
About These Ratings Instead, the Irish considered themselves "exiles" — driven from their homeland by factors from the great potato famine of the 1840s to oppressive Protestant landlords who seized land from Catholics and evicted them from their homes by the thousands. ...
The Waiting Room... An erotic and humorous story about a man who is sitting in a waiting room. The man spots a beautiful young girl. ... An Créatúr... "The Helpless Creature" is an extraordinary story of two brothers, born and growing up in an ordinary Irish family. This peculiar ...
Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s film is a mesmerizing masterpiece. It’s the kind of movie that leaves you staggering from the theater in a daze, its spell is so powerful, and yet you’ll also want to talk about it immediately afterward to hash through all its complex themes and possi...
the film evokes specific aspects of Irish culture and identity, such as the relationship between the man and nature, the importance of family and community, and the enduring power of myth and legend.2 Film SynopsisBen, the son of a lighthouse keeper named Conor and his wife Bronach, lived...
With the wet weather came the blight that caused the Irish potato famine. Idaho's potato farmers were totally unprepared. The film looks at traditional methods of potato farming where Andean families grow their own varieties, practice crop rotation, and utilize a minimum of inputs. In sharp ...
Brewster Kneen, The Rams Horn "The film takes Bishop on an around-the-world trip...What he finds is an industrialization process in the world's farming industry that is frighteningly reminiscent of such historical events as the communist farm collectives and the Irish potato famine...As scary...