Tagged Brian Cox

A panicked young man runs through a forest, moments ahead of an unseen assailant and heavily hampered by a broken leg. The view then abruptly cuts to two days earlier, when his brother’s high school...

It’s been 15 years since Broken Lizard’s first instalment of Super Troopers (2001), a film that, while sitting comfortably within the cult-comedy category, was never considered more than a B-movie. Which...

You know a film has really got under your skin when halfway through you notice one hand is numb from being clenched so tightly. You know it’s pushing you to the edge when you consider breaking your own rule...

Sir Michael Gifford is not a pleasant man. An aging actor quick to quote Shakespeare and shaken by his failing health, he is nonetheless a cantankerous, foul-mouthed, pompous ass – Brian Cox is perfect as...

Defending Troy is enough to get you excommunicated from the Classics community - for there is a lot wrong with the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster, adapted from Homer’s epic poem the Iliad. There is, however,...