Join us on St Patrick’s Day for a hilarious buddy-cop comedy thriller set in rural Ireland, starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle
Wardrobe Theatre DVD Club dusts off the DVD cabinet to present films that deserve to be seen on a big screen and watched with a crowd of fellow film lovers.
The Guard (Dir. John Michael McDonagh, 2011)
An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality (Brendan Gleeson) is partnered with an uptight FBI agent (Don Cheadle) to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring in this offbeat black comedy set against a scenic backdrop of rural Galway.
“The funniest action comedy for a long time.”
Little White Lies
“Among the most purely entertaining films of the year, which cuts its laughter with a dose of Celtic melancholy. It still delivers cop/action requirements – shoot-outs, revenges, daring deeds – and chances are, we’ll be quoting lines from this forever.“
Empire
“Great fun when taken in the right spirit, which would be Old Paddy with a Guinness chaser.”
The Guardian
“Rudely funny and faintly melancholic… screenwriter John Michael McDonagh’s directorial debut is a stylish lark whose many disparate elements somehow manage to go down as smoothly as Guinness.”
Variety
