Russell Crowe

Silence. The doldrums. A ship, the HMS Surprise, drifts on a breath of wind. Two men, teenage boys really, stand on the foredeck with spyglasses in hand. Before them, an enormous fog bank is rolling in and within it, one of these young…

Unhinged is a strange movie. Not so much in its story but rather who stars in it and the context of its release. The film begins with Tom Hunter – played by Russell Crowe, still carrying the weight he put on playing Roger Ailes – a…

Every generation has a crime writer that supersedes those that have come before. In a post-Raymond Chandler world James Ellroy is that crime writer. Self-styled as the “demon dog” of crime fiction his work shatters taboos and wraps readers…

Heard the one about Justin Bieber repeatedly asking a guy in a calm and measured fashion to please stop following and recording him on a Dublin street? It’s bloody hilarious, isn’t it? That Bieber, what a prick! He deserved it. How dare he…

While watching The Nice Guys, the latest from writer-director Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3), the words “auteur theory” kept popping into my head. One of the central tenements of this theory is that no matter how many writers…

I had never reviewed a film before going to the press screening of Russell Crowe’s new motion picture The Water Diviner in which he both stars and directs. Russell Crowe is the Australian star who first came to Hollywood’s attention in…

This week Twitter trends were extra Irish, because of St. Patrick's Day and the plentiful amount of home brewed news to keep us tweeting. St. Patrick's Day Posts #ProudToBeIrish #Ireland As the St. Patrick's Day kicked off this…