By Marty Mulrooney
Tracker is a 2010 British/New Zealand action-thriller directed by British film and television director Ian Sharp. Set in 1903 New Zealand, Tracker stars Ray Winstone as Arajan van Diemen, an Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War and master tracker, who is offered a bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Māori seafarer accused of killing a British soldier. Tracker was recently released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK by Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.
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By Marty Mulrooney
Route Irish is a drama-thriller directed by Ken Loach, starring Mark Womack and stand-up comedian John Bishop. Set almost entirely in Liverpool, the film deals with the lives of private security contractors after they have returned home from the Iraq War. When Fergus (Womack) finds out his best friend Frankie (Bishop) has been killed, he sets out to disprove the official story and reveal the explosive truth.
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By Marty Mulrooney
An archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands. It is also the name of director Joanna Hogg’s second feature film, rather fittingly set on Tresco, the second largest island of the Isles of Scilly, which form an archipelago off the south-western tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. Shot from predominantly static camera angles and with no soundtrack to speak of, Archipelago offers an almost voyeuristic insight into the life of a family brought together for a quiet cottage holiday, before being pushed apart by the realisation that they are actually strangers.
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By Joseph Marshall
A distraught young man sits propped up against some rocks, panting and gathering his thoughts. In the background, choppy waters lap the shoreline. This is college student turned scientist Pavel Danilov and he is on the run from his armed and dangerous colleague Sergei. It’s a moment in which the audience as well as the man on screen can pause for breath, in what we assume is a temporary respite from his peril. But before we are given the chance, we have the dreadful realisation that his tormenter has bobbed into view again in the top left hand corner of the screen, aboard a small wooden vessel. He has a gun. Pavel unfortunately, is very much without a paddle.
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