Chris Wasser

1 week ago | independent.ie | Chris Wasser |Hilary A. White

From epics to animation, the best family movies to stream this Easter weekend Holiday entertainment sorted Family movies for Easter holidaysChris Wasser and Hilary WhiteToday at 03:30It's Easter time, the children are on holidays, and there’s lots of chocolate eggs in the house. So clamber onto the sofa and stick on one of these family classics which our film critics having lovingly picked.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Chris Wasser

In cinemas; Cert 15ANot long after finishing his most recent film Civil War, writer-director Alex Garland met with the film’s battle-scene consultant, former US Navy Seal Ray Mendoza, to discuss a new project. Mendoza shared a story about how his platoon had become trapped in an urban residential area in Ramadi province, Iraq, in November 2006.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Chris Wasser

Chris Wasser reviews Making History: ‘Friel’s story of a reckless power player, obsessed with preserving his own legacy, rings true in these troubling times’TheatreAaron McCusker and Liadán Dunlea in 'Making History' by Brian Friel at the Everyman, CorkThere are no winners in Making History. For some, Brian Friel’s eager, energetic drama helps decipher an uneven chapter in Ireland’s past, when Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, flew too close to the sun. Allow us to simplify the historical narrative.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Chris Wasser

Michael B Jordan, mastering a dual role lead, convinces and captivates as a pair of entrepreneurial gangster twins – Smoke and Stack – looking to open a lucrative juke joint in 1930s Mississippi. It’s a good set-up with a smashing lead, and this meaty, muscular presentation devotes its opening half to personal and criminal complications that stand in the way of our handsome business operators. But everything changes following the introduction of Jack O’Connell’s Remmick.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Chris Wasser

Theatre preview‘The Inside of His Head’ is hardly the catchiest title – but it was the first one that Arthur Miller considered when assembling his classic American tragedy, Death of a Salesman. He had his reasons. Miller’s original set design idea, he explained to the New Yorker magazine in 1999, was showier and perhaps trickier than a basic Brooklyn apartment building.