Topic: Stephen Rea

Like a sitcom that's grown long in the tooth, "Underworld: Awakening" has added a child to try to breathe new life into an aging series.. . Sure...

Film Review

The fourth entry in this profitable B-movie series helpfully brings its viewers up to speed with a quick recap of the first two movies...
Blackthorn' - 3 stars Drama about the aging Butch Cassidy's life in Bolivia (1:38). R: Violence, language. At the Sunshine Landmark, Lincoln Plaza...
The star-studded guest list for this weekend's Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin has been announced. Among those who will be in attendance...

Movie reviews: The Reaping

I like to consider myself a well balanced reviewer, I try to see the positives in the negatives; but once in a blue moon a film comes along that no matter how hard I try I cannot find faith in it. The ...

Movie reviews: Still Crazy

There have been a few notable films in the spoof rockumentary category. Bassist, Les Wickes (Jimmy Nail) and Drummer Beano Bagget (Timothy Spall) are easy to convince to rejoin but the difficult one is Ray (Bill Nighy) the lead singer. With Dick ...
Martin Sheen will soon make his way to the birthplace of his mother, Co. Tipperary, to film Stella Days.. . He'll play a parish priest whose love...

Stephen Rea

Aspects of the topic Stephen Rea are discussed in the following places at Britannica. In 1982 he won acclaim for his first feature film, Angel, a drama that starred Stephen Rea, who later appeared in a number of Jordan's films.

Riding the rough in Kicking a Dead Horse

It should come as no great surprise that Sam Shepard, whose plays often describe how the great American dream has given way to all manner of nightmare, should now be moving into Samuel Beckett territory. I suspect this broody, 70-minute solo piece ...

Kicking a Dead Horse

If there's such a thing as a homegrown playwright, Shepard is it. Mac Conghail, a self-styled "artist manque," has run the Abbey since 2005 and originally wanted to ask Shepard to present a series, one play a year. Instead, the playwright ...