Brendan Gleeson

Life imitates art in director James McTeigue’s preposterous but entertaining gothic thriller starring John Cusack as drunken writer turned action hero, Edgar Allan Poe.

Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds do good work in an otherwise frustratingly by-the-numbers action thriller.

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.