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SHARE BUTTON FILM REVIEW: ‘71 By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com In the past, screen depictions of Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ have veered very much on the ‘film’ side. Yann Demange’s thriller, however, is unashamedly a ‘movie’, which may point to how much progress has been made in that previously turbulent part of the world. Jack O’Connell has been having a great year in 2014. PreFebruary 2015 Article Index viously typecast as the evil “chav” (a British stereotype for anti-social youth) in films like Eden Lake, Harry Brown, and Tower Block, this year has seen him prove an impressive leading man in the gripping prison drama Starred Up. Here he plays Gary, a young and naive British soldier who finds himself shipped off to the mean streets Next Article 25