McGuinness and Paisley: Unlikely double act fails to catch fire
Strained and clumsy dialogue, while the more obvious grandstanding moments struggle to connect
Cinema
The Journey: Directed by Nick Hamm, Nationwide, 12A,Rating:****
Without Name: Directed by Lorcan Finnegan, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:***
It’s one of the great unanswered questions of recent Irish history: how did Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley put their differences aside and forge peace from generations of enmity? Belfast-born director Nick Hamm’s The Journey is a fictionalised attempt to imagine what happened between McGuinness and Paisley, stretching the historical record beyond the point of elasticity ...
