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France24 (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Despite a career which has included a string of critical hits such as "My Left Foot" and "In the Name of the Father," Jim Sheridan admits he was daunted by his latest film. The 60-year-old Irish director returns to cinemas this week with the North American release of "Brothers," a drama about the turmoil of an Afghanistan veteran, played by Tobey Maguire, struggling...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Moviemaker JIM SHERIDAN had no problems making his BROTHERS star JAKE GYLLENHAAL sob for one emotional scene in the film - he played BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's live version of...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Irish director's new film is about a war veteran, his wife and his ex-convict brother. No one does a better impression of Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan than his old friend Bono. On a recent crystal-blue afternoon in L.A., the rock star, who was in town for a concert at the Rose Bowl, lifted his shoulders, dropped his chin and scowled like Popeye. He slapped a palm to his forehead and began...
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Jim Sheridan's "Brothers," it feels like the film's three young stars are playing house.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan has long been known as one of the top dramatic directors thanks to his early movies My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father as well as his most personal movie, In America , the three of them having collectively garnered him six Academy Awards nominations. Sheridan's last movie teamed him with rapper 50 Cent for the biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin' , and it...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The affable Jim Sheridan held court at the Monkey Bar last Monday, talking about his new movie, to open this Friday. Given that the first...
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
The affable Jim Sheridan held court at the Monkey Bar last Monday, talking about his new movie, to open this Friday. Given that the first rate Brothers is a redo of a 2004 Danish film directed by Susanne Bier, now...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Midway through a conversation with director Jim Sheridan about his latest film, "Brothers," he abruptly asks, "Do you think anybody will go see this movie?" I say what I think he wants to hear - that a cast led by Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal is sure to...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Directed by Jim Sheridan, Brothers stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire.
Daemon's Movies (Free subscription) | yesterday
Check out some new photos for BROTHERS starring Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Jim Sheridan. Brothers Synopsis: Thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill and his younger brother Tommy Cahill, are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school [...]
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Fun fact: Five years separate Susanne Bier’s Danish film Brødre and the English-language remake, yet the defining trauma of both melodramas remains the war in Afghanistan. (And should the Danish want to remake the remake again in a few years, the script likely won’t need a rewrite.) Scripted by 25th Hour writer David Benioff and helmed by In The Name Of The Father director Jim Sheridan,...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Brothers” is a movie built on that jarring disconnect between combat zone and “back home.” Part POW thriller, part romance, with a big helping of melodrama, Jim Sheridan’s film is about a brother who went off to war, was declared dead, but returns a changed man. And it’s about the brother left behind, a man changed by his soldier sibling’s...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... contains such good acting that one is willing to overlook its other faults. One example might be Jim Sheridan's Brothers, a film critics say often works despite being frequently overwrought. Robert De Niro has an intensity and presence that shines through...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Brothers RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Drama. Starring Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire. Directed by Jim Sheridan. (R. 110 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) A man goes to war and comes back a spectral presence in his home, thin, scarred and...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brothers is filled with good performances and tense, captivating moments, and one long scene -- an awkward family dinner that gradually builds in tension until you're squirming in your seat -- is a knockout. So why does the movie barely register? In remaking Susanne Bier's Danish-language drama from 2005, director Jim Sheridan (In America, The Boxer) and screenwriter David Benioff (The 25th...
