The assassination of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin in June 1996 shocked Ireland and galvanized the public against the previously untouchable drug traffickers who’d done her in—a finer legacy ...

In Veronica Guerin, director Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever, Tigerland), who never met a point he didn’t feel the need to hammer home way too hard, takes on the story of a muckraking journalist who ...

Veronica Guerin isn’t at all a bad movie, and some kind things will be said about it here. But cynical appraisal also has its place, so we’ll cover that aspect as well. Even before that, a significant ...

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joel Schumacher push all the right buttons in "Veronica Guerin," a new film, starring Cate Blanchett, about the eponymous Irish reporter murdered by drug ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Before you crack your wallet for Veronica Guerin, you’d be well off to rent a video of the 2000 release When the Sky Falls (working titles: When Heaven Falls and, natch, Veronica Guerin), of which ...

One of the more important lessons Irish films of the last 20 years have taught us is that you don’t fuck with the green underworld, whether it be the IRA or just plain druglords. Those who do end up ...

This biopic about the last two years in the life of crusading Irish journalist Veronica Guerin is serviceable but hardly riveting or inspirational. Blanchett performs admirably in the title role, but ...

The Irish do love their saints. And, apparently, super-slick Hollywood director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer were not about to let anything disturb the pristine sanctity of Erin's ...

While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it. A ...