Author Archives: Jay Richardson

The Boy David Story

December 9th, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

A compressed retelling of six award-winning documentary films shot between 1980 and 1999, The Boy David Story travels between Peru,


Thirteen

December 5th, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

A hormonally-charged, occasionally hysterical film, Thirteen is hardly your typical portrait of teenage girlhood. But first-time director Catherine Hardwicke’s film


Dara O’Briain: This Is The Show

November 22nd, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

Dara O’Briain had hoped to call his DVD ‘Craic Dealer’, but sadly, that was too near the knuckle for supermarket


Love Actually

November 21st, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

Love Actually is both easy to love and easy to despise. If you can avoid the hype – and let’s


Mystic River

October 19th, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

A flawed but engaging film, Mystic River succeeds through the sheer weight of talent involved. After the underwhelming Blood Work,


Ned Kelly

September 26th, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

Given the furore that enveloped his Buffalo Soldiers, it’s perhaps understandable that director Gregor Jordan’s take on the Ned Kelly


Once Upon a Time in Mexico

September 26th, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

Robert Rodriguez is a talented man. As Once Upon A Time in Mexico’s opening credits relate, he wrote, directed, “shot,


Anne-Marie Duff and Peter Mullan

September 7th, 2003 | by Jay Richardson

Actress Anne-Marie Duff and director Peter Mullan discuss making The Magdalene Sisters, becoming Kenneth Branagh and squaring up to Bruce



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