Pixie is released in cinemas on 23 October. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig. But maybe it’s just not that kind of film. THE DIG by Ryan Tohill, Andrew Tohill synopsis After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. And yet, is she still a male fantasy? The script, written by the director’s son Preston Thompson, doesn’t do an awful lot to peel away the layers of seductiveness to find the real woman. By contrast, Pixie is her own woman, out for what she can get: an amoral, selfish free spirit. I wondered if naming her character Pixie was a little dig at Hollywood’s Manic Pixie Girl cliche – the female characters who exist only to help men change and grow. Pixie’s heist involves robbing Father Hector, and when that goes awry, she hits the road with a holdall of MDMA, a body in the boot of the car and two gormless lads from the local pub.Ĭooke really is terrific, easily carrying the movie with her swallowed-a-lightbulb screen presence. But still, there are some genuinely funny moments: the joke underpinning the whole thing is that gangster priests control drugs in the area, and are led by kingpin Father Hector (Alec Baldwin, disappointingly bringing nothing much to the part beyond a splash of Hollywood dazzle). There’s a legion of influences here, and what’s on screen is perhaps never quite enough its own thing. The tone of the film is Father Ted-meets-Tarantino, with a smattering of Ferris Bueller and In Bruges.
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