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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
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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
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