It's time to go to the movies, and this time every Wednesday, Producer and Former director of film classification John Kelleher joins us, for a view of the releases this week, as well as looks at a classic movie that’s on the telly in case you don’t want to budge from your sofas
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New Releases this week:
'Diana'
Director:
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast:
Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews
Synopsis:
The film is based on a screenplay by the internationally acclaimed playwright Stephen Jeffreys (The Clink, Libertine). The compelling love story charts how finding true personal happiness allowed Diana to achieve her defining successes, as she evolved into a major international campaigner and humanitarian.
Cold Comes The Night
Bryan Cranston’s star is on the rise thanks to Breaking Bad and now he stars in a new movie out this week
John kelleher says:
“This is pretty good film noir, but could have made it better 50 years ago. It has a standard plot with twists and turns. Cranston is good, but it’s Alice Eve that steals the show as she deviates away from her usual bimbo character that she normally plays”
Synopsis:
Stars Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston as a stone cold killer who is losing his sight.
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop
The near-blind Topo, (Bryan Cranston) who is hell-bent on stealing money from a corrupt cop (Logan Marshall-Green), takes Chloe hostage and blackmails her into acting as his eyes.
With her daughter's life at stake, Chloe is forced into a situation where she rapidly finds herself in over her head.
Classic recommendation
There is a first class French thriller on TG4 on Friday 20th at 1145pm: Mesrine, starring Vincent Cassell.
Director:
Jean-François Richet
Writers:
Jacques Mesrine (book), Abdel Raouf Dafri (scenario), 2 more credits »
Stars:
Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu
Synopsis:
Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy
