Pride and Glory

Pride and Glory opens with a football game between two teams of New York City cops, and thereby telegraphs its intent: this is a movie about men. Men doing manly things, bonding together in manly ways. It’s about men in families, men in locker rooms, men in corruption schemes. Women are peripheral in the world of this film, they’re wives who wring their hands over their husbands’ shady friends, mothers who disapprove of their (male) family’s ways, or crack-mamas who are punching bags for their [...]

Short Take: In Bruges

Take two Irish hit-men — one twitchy, the other sentimental — and one ferocious Brit, and what do you get? Besides a civil war, I mean? In Bruges, of course: the debut feature by London-born Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.

The two hit-men, Ray and Ken, are played by Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. [...]