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GFF 2011 Film Review: Route Irish

by Chris McDonald on February 28, 2011

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Dead in the Blackwater (Route Irish, Ken Loach, UK/France/Italy/Belgium/Spain, 2011, 109 mins) Mercenaries, murder, torture and the Iraq War; after the whimsy of 2009’s Looking for Eric, Ken Loach returns to the shadows with Route Irish. The piece follows intense Liverpudlian Fergus (Mark Womack) – an ex-SAS officer – as he searches for answers concerning [...]

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GFF 2011 Film Review: The Big Uneasy

by Chris McDonald on February 23, 2011

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Why the Levees Broke (The Big Uneasy, Harry Shearer, USA, 2010, 98 mins) Almost six years after Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans, the disaster’s place in American popular consciousness remains second only to that of one dark day in mid-September, 2001. Causing almost 2,000 deaths and more than $90 billion worth of [...]

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