Man on (metaphorical) wire: MI5 officer Clive Owen keeps tabs on the Troubles Owen plays Mac, a truculent MI5 operative who sets about making an informer out of Riseborough as a young Belfast mum, ...
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In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility. MI-5 Agent Mac offers a deal to Collette to become an informer. She accepts the agreement to ...
More stories by Nigel M. This time last year, few audiences knew of British star Andrea Riseborough by name. Prior to appearing at Sundance in January, 2012 in support of her staggering performance in ...
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The minute Collette plants a bomb, early in “Shadow Dancer,” she is doomed. Or she may have been doomed the moment she was born in Belfast, Ireland. “Shadow Dancer” opens with a scene of Collette’s ...
James Marsh's Shadow Dancer opens with scenes depicting the lead ups to a pair of violent acts separated by 20 years. The events are connected, both by the involvement of Collette (Andrea Riseborough) ...
If “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” represented the height of Cold War paranoia within the British intelligence community, then “Shadow Dancer” is the next chapter, replacing the ominous Russian ...