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...shit and she’s definitely just waiting around for some law school student to swipe her off her feet one night at Om.” “But she knows me,” his soft-spoken and probably much less alt friend Ben J. Gleeson ’10 typically adds, “We’ve known each other since our freshman seminar.” (He often adds a few more mumbled comments that I just can’t quite make out, no matter how hard I press...
...quality of it." By day two, he was bored out of his mind. And from his conflicting desires - get some culture vs. get drunk - his two characters, Ray and Ken, were born. After botching a job, newbie hit man Ray (played by Colin Farrell) and his mentor Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are sent to Bruges to cool their heels. As they wait for instructions from boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes), Ken wants to take in the sights but Ray would rather meet girls and make fun of American tourists. The film's first half is pure comedy, as Ken and Ray bicker...
...Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged, as when he gestures to a steamer trunk whose contents are frantically...
...Gleeson commandeers acting honors until the very late arrival of Ralph Fiennes as You Know Who ... He Who Must Not Be Named ... The Noseless Wonder ... Voldemort! The Tri-Wizard games that expertly filled most of the film?s time vanish from our minds when His Satanic Majesty appears to retrieve Harry for his purposes. ?Everything?s going to change now, isn?t it?? the boy-king asks later. It will. It has. In the Potter movie series, for the better...
...Gleeson, nearing 90, continues to issue Surrealist thunderbolts from his Sydney studio; a retrospective due at the National Gallery of Victoria in October should confirm his Zeus-like status. "Do not commit suicide," Gleeson wrote in 1941, "for Surrealism has been born." It lives...