Posts Tagged ‘Pete Postlethwaite’

The Lowdown: Terence Davies – The Deep Blue Sea and previous films

The Lowdown: Terence Davies – The Deep Blue Sea and previous films

Ahead of The Deep Blue Sea coming out on Friday, November 25th, we thought we'd take a closer look at this film, its director Terence Davies and some of his previous films. Terence Davies is a British director whose work is best known for evoking a certain type of dusky atmosphere and dealing with issues such as dogmatic religion, personal...

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Quiz: Who won the Oscar nom?

Quiz: Who won the Oscar nom?

Get your acceptance speech at the ready... This week the nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced, so we thought we'd take a look at past nominees and test your knowledge of the winners. Break a leg! [QUIZZIN...

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Win one of 3 copies of The Town on DVD

Win one of 3 copies of The Town on DVD

We're giving away three copies of The Town, Ben Affleck's second movie behind the camera. Starring Affleck himself, Mad Men's Jon Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite in one of his last cinematic roles and Rebecca Hall, the film is an explosive mixture of bank robbery, action, romance and Irish Americans. At The Film Review, we really liked the movie...

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Ben Affleck is back in The Town

Trailers for the new Ben Affleck movie The Town have got us wondering if it'll be one of his flops or successes. The town in question is Affleck's home ground of Boston, where 'there are over 300 bank robberies...every year'. Doug MacRay (Affleck) is a bank robber who bumps into one of his traumatised victims, Claire (Rebecca Hall), shortly...

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