... tortured presence. Director Roland Emmerich, better known for his spectacular special effects contrived action yarns Independence Day and Godzilla, is at his best with broad strokes. A powerful John Williams heightens the simplistic sense of right versus ...

... and Gallipoli. He's an A-list actor, it's his duty to make an epic if that's what he wants to do and with the help of Independence Day and Godzilla director Roland Emmerich, that's what he's gone and done. Mel turns angry, bent on vengeance and master- ...

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... becomes a legendary guerrilla fighter and almost single handedly destroys the sinister British. Directer Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) turns lasers to cannonballs. But great battle scenes don't make up for a lack of originality and over-reliance on heavy ...

... looting forward to a trip to the Galway Festival meeting. Carberry had to pull out all the stops on Woodchester to hold off Independence Day which was ridden by David Casey. RETURN Casey, who rode in Britain last season, will be in Ireland most of the time until ...

... xictory in the Doyle Brothers Beginners' Chase. Carberry look his time on the seven-year-old gelding and got the better of Independence Day after a good battle from the final fence. Successful trainer Jimmy Mangan said: Woodchester may now go to Galway. I ...

... McCarthy. Asgard has been busy on America's east coast. She was a participant in the Parade of Sail in New York Harbour on Independence Day, which was reviewed from the aircraft carrier John F Kennedy by President Clinton. and is reckoned to have been the largest ...

... you regard as unmissabloT No Disco, Alternative Nation on MTV One? Columbo What Is the worst book you have aver road? Independence Day by Richard Ford What we you reading at present? The Provos, The IRA and Sinn Fein by Peter Taylor One desert island, ...

... over the breakfast table, that one or other of us said let's have children. But I did like writing about children. In Independence Day, the follow up to The Sponswther, which went on to win a Pulitzer prize, Ford captures a teenage boy in all his awfulness ...

... commanders said they expected the rebels to launch a wave of attacks today, which Chechen separatists consider this their independence day. • , yam b 0 PEACE OUR TIME: Goofy* W Bush eschewed boillgoienco to woo Anwrica's voters with a 'poach of soothing political ...

... C'orelli's Mandolin, 80s punk poet John Cooper Clarke (next Wednesday) and Pulitzer Prize-winnet Richard Ford. author of independence Day, who will be in conversation this night week with. and I quote, a well-known figure from the Irish Arts world. Wonder ...