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Archive for September, 2008

Review: Righteous Kill

ROBERT DE NIRO and Al Pacino seem to have been circling the same territory for decades, gurning and glowering their way through twin lifetimes of a method acting. And yet they have scarcely once shared the same screen.
In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather IIcast them both as Corleones, but kept them (as is perhaps [...]

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First Published: The Irish Times, September 13, 2008

The apartment is as you’d expect. Books are everywhere – on the tables, on the ottomans, on the shelves around the pale, high walls – and where there are no books there are photographs; silver-framed family snapshots, tinted now with an intense melancholy. That autumn afternoon by Bethesda [...]

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