Sam Claflin stars in a striking-looking film set in east London, but it’s all sold short by ropey storytelling and dodgy dialogue
Slipped into cinemas on the quiet, without an official press screening, Ron Scalpello’s starry, busy British crime drama proves to be a semi-entertaining mixed bags. It has a measure of ambition, strong dramatic scenes and grabby performances, not least from Timothy Spall as a property magnate looming over east London like some doubly malevolent reincarnation of Bob Hoskins’ Harold Shand from The Long Good Friday. Yet the storytelling connecting its disparate elements starts to feel dashed-off, as if somebody involved couldn’t wait for it to occupy the 10pm slot on London Live that may be its destiny. This approach short-sells both cinematographer Richard Mott’s striking framing of the capital’s moneyed hotspots and the spiky idea at the heart of Nick Moorcroft’s script:...
Slipped into cinemas on the quiet, without an official press screening, Ron Scalpello’s starry, busy British crime drama proves to be a semi-entertaining mixed bags. It has a measure of ambition, strong dramatic scenes and grabby performances, not least from Timothy Spall as a property magnate looming over east London like some doubly malevolent reincarnation of Bob Hoskins’ Harold Shand from The Long Good Friday. Yet the storytelling connecting its disparate elements starts to feel dashed-off, as if somebody involved couldn’t wait for it to occupy the 10pm slot on London Live that may be its destiny. This approach short-sells both cinematographer Richard Mott’s striking framing of the capital’s moneyed hotspots and the spiky idea at the heart of Nick Moorcroft’s script:...
- 5/10/2019
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
A New York judge has found millionaire businessman Cal Harris not guilty in his fourth trial for the 2001 murder of his still-missing wife, Michele. The verdict rewarded the gamble of a defense attorney who decided against putting his client's fate in the hands of a jury. "There are no winners in this case," Harris, 54, a father of four children, said Tuesday outside the Schoharie County courthouse, reports the Press & Sun-Bulletin. Harris wept after the verdict was announced, the paper reports. Defense attorney Bruce Barket said, "The cause for celebration is there, but Michele needs to come home." Prosecutors alleged that...
- 5/24/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
A New York judge has found millionaire businessman Cal Harris not guilty in his fourth trial for the 2001 murder of his still-missing wife, Michele. The verdict rewarded the gamble of a defense attorney who decided against putting his client's fate in the hands of a jury. "There are no winners in this case," Harris, 54, a father of four children, said Tuesday outside the Schoharie County courthouse, reports the Press & Sun-Bulletin. Harris wept after the verdict was announced, the paper reports. Defense attorney Bruce Barket said, "The cause for celebration is there, but Michele needs to come home." Prosecutors alleged that...
- 5/24/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
[CUSTOM_PLAYER_BRIGHTCOVE "4899904421001"] For the fourth time since his estranged wife Michele went missing in 2001, New York millionaire businessman Cal Harris heard himself summed up in court Wednesday in starkly opposite terms: as a vindictive spouse pushed to murderous rage by a potentially expensive divorce, and a man falsely accused. "On the night of Sept. 11, 2001, when most people were concerned about what had just happened earlier in the day, the defendant was concerned only with himself and how it could benefit him to put his plan in motion to make Michele disappear," Tioga County, New York, District Attorney Kirk Martin said in closing...
- 5/19/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
[CUSTOM_PLAYER_BRIGHTCOVE "4899904421001"] For the fourth time since his estranged wife Michele went missing in 2001, New York millionaire businessman Cal Harris heard himself summed up in court Wednesday in starkly opposite terms: as a vindictive spouse pushed to murderous rage by a potentially expensive divorce, and a man falsely accused. "On the night of Sept. 11, 2001, when most people were concerned about what had just happened earlier in the day, the defendant was concerned only with himself and how it could benefit him to put his plan in motion to make Michele disappear," Tioga County, New York, District Attorney Kirk Martin said in closing...
- 5/19/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
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