Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

A young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA.

Fast-paced and well-made Northern Ireland thriller that does manage to avoid political bias, but is not so careful considering facts (the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998 and not in 2007 as mentioned in the epilogue).

Maltin**: "Taut, fact-based account...Both a well-made thriller and a character study of McGartland and the impact his informing has on his life."

Rose McGowan

ph: Tony Duran

Rose McGowan

ph: Ellen von Unwerth

Rose McGowan

ph: Anthony Mandler

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

An vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy.

Great production value doesn't work amid a senseless plot and endless fighting scenes.

Maltin**1/2: "New look at Robert E. Howard's pulp-fiction hero may not be inteelectually stimulating but it's never dull with great action scenes, visual effects and two formidable villains: warlord Lang and McGowan as his sorceress daughter."