robert carlyle

“The most energetic film we have ever seen,” is how Danny Boyle first envisioned 1996’s Trainspotting. As it turned out, that was something of an understatement. A wild, sweaty, angry ode to a bunch of Scottish skag heads, the seminal…

I love Ravenous. Absolutely love it. I've loved it since I first saw it, I love it when I get to recommend it to other people, and I somehow love it even more every time I rewatch it. It's an impressively gruesome tale focused on…

Based on a novel by Douglas Lindsay, entitled The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson, this twisted comedy soon makes itself apparent as a natural choice for the feature directorial debut of one Mr. Robert Carlyle, a man who has given viewers…

He'd been destined for the role for a long, long time, or so it seemed, and when Pierce Brosnan was announced as the next incarnation of Bond I don't remember anyone having any reservations. Okay, a few people may have thought he was a bit…

There aren’t that many major action movies set in Middlesborough, UK so The Tournament at least deserves some points for its unusual setting. It also deserves some points for its enjoyable and over the top action sequences. The rest of the…

Wise and weird and scary In 28 Weeks Later Danny Boyle and Alex Garland have stepped back and produced, consigning the sequel-making task to a Spaniard, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, of the "wildly precocious" 2001 "cerebral occult thriller"…

A follow-up to the horror movie that reinvigorated the zombie genre without having any zombies in it directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a man previously known for a very good movie in which blindfolded people run through woods? Sounds…