Christopher Walken
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Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand
- Film
- November 26, 2020
The director of Wild Mountain Thyme has defended the accents in it, saying that a normal Irish accent would be too difficult for an international audi(...)

Patrick Freyne: Wild Mountain Thyme and my all-time favourite Oirish films
- TV, Radio, Web
- November 12, 2020
“Welcome to Ireland!” says Christopher Walken, at the outset of the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme, already my favourite “bad” Irish film. Then he re(...)

Wild Mountain Thyme trailer: What in the name of holy bejaysus is this cowpat?
- Film
- November 11, 2020
Let us get the disclaimer out of the way first. There is every chance that John Patrick Shanley’s Wild Mountain Thyme will be a masterpiece for the ag(...)

Joe Burrow’s speed-of-light ascent is every bit of the American dream
- Sport
- April 25, 2020, 08:00
You grow up quickly in American sport. The world is spinning on such a funfair axis at the moment that nobody cared that the NFL draft was conducted f(...)

Abel Ferrara: ‘You can’t imagine the life I’ve led’
- Film
- January 21, 2020, 05:00
More than any other filmmaker, even those anointed by Cahiers du Cinéma at its peak, the American writer-director Abel Ferrara requires a degree of Fr(...)

The Deer Hunter: 40 years on, the Russian roulette scenes feel racist
- Film
- July 3, 2018, 03:00
John Milius, screenwriter of Apocalypse Now and director of Conan the Barbarian, once claimed that “the Vietnam veteran – because he lost the most, be(...)

Cinema’s best dance scenes, from Travolta to ‘Trainspotting’
- Film
- April 10, 2018, 11:30
10. The Deer Hunter Most now associate Michael Cimino’s film with Christopher Walken pressing a gun to his temple, but it’s the Russian wedding dance(...)

Father Figures: Flaccid comedy with a criminally lazy script
- Film
- February 16, 2018, 18:00
Come back, Daddy’s Home 2; all is forgiven! It takes all of three minutes for the unfortunate viewer to realise why this flaccid comedy was released (...)

Irreplaceable You: A ‘terminal romance’ exclusive to Netflix
- Film
- February 15, 2018, 05:00
We may not be able to access the precise metrics but we do know that romances do a brisk trade over at Netflix: remember those 53 viewers who were out(...)

Robert Wagner ‘person of interest’ in Natalie Wood death
- Film
- February 1, 2018, 22:54
Nearly four decades after his wife Natalie Wood drowned, investigators are now calling actor Robert Wagner a “person of interest” in her death. Since(...)