The guard
Film4 11.10pm - 1.05am ★★★★
comedy thriller⊲ Brendan Gleeson is on fine form in this dark and funny movie. He plays a small-town policeman in the west of Ireland who is gleefully cynical and defiantly politically incorrect – much to the shock of
Don Cheadle’s strait-laced FBI agent, who finds himself working with Gleeson to bring down a cocaine smuggling ring. A cracking film that delivers intricate plotting, bloody shoot-outs and lots of subversive wit. Dir: John Michael Mcdonagh 2011, 15, 115min