What makes it bearable to watch is that all of the aggressors are just as horrified by their own actions.

She runs a charity shop in a rundown row of stores and when Joseph, in fugitive mode from his own rampaging, seeks refuge behind the used-clothes rack in her shop, she all too readily falls on her knees to pray for his soul, an offer he callously rejects. | Rating: 7/10

Cinemark The acting - particularly the moving performance of Olivia Colman as a battered spouse living in a grim corner of Leeds, England - is fierce and committed. Drama Tyrannosaur; Tyrannosaur Review. December 1, 2011 The kind of man who starts out kicking his dog to death will probably not end up running an animal shelter.

Joseph (Peter Mullan) is a middle-aged, working-class widower, a foul-mouthed drunk, violent and self-destructive, and he's first seen kicking his dog to death in a back alley. But her meek demeanour covers up her terrible life behind a petty bourgeois veil of respectable lace curtains. There's also great appeal in the character Samuel, who stands on the protection of his father's deck and shouts warnings at neighborhood bullies.

He never lets himself off the hook.

He knows he's weak and flawed, damaged by anger. We sing I selected Tyrannosaur Canyon on the basis of the reviews on Goodreads. Tyrannosaur proudly upholds the British cinematic tradition of producing affecting, character-driven social dramas. "Tyrannosaur" is the first feature film directed by another great actor, Paddy Considine, and it centers on two men trapped in a coil of drinking, violence and nearly constant anger. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan are excellent as the orphans of this terrifying storm, and Eddie Marsan is frighteningly beyond the pale as the husband from, and on his way to, hell.Eddie Marsan in Tyrannosaur: 'a snivelling sadist'.Eddie Marsan in Tyrannosaur: 'a snivelling sadist'.addy Considine is a forceful actor who has given a number of striking performances in films with provincial, working-class settings by Shane Meadows and Pawel Pawlikowski. Joseph sees her one day with a black eye. Considine offers no solution to his characters' problems.

| Rating: 3.5/4 We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Regal At times this is a film you may want to look away from, even if its little speckles of violence aren't explicit and graphically shown. She conceals his atrocities, internalises her grievances, blames her injuries on domestic accidents and takes to drink.An affecting, tentative friendship grows up between Hannah and Joseph, but neither undergoes anything that could be regarded as a radical change or that might be called redemption until, following a terrible revelation, there's a coda that takes place a year or so after the main action. Previous Next. | Rating: 2/5

Finds it hard some days to dress Actor Paddy Considine turns filmmaker with the indie drama, Tyrannosaur. This daring opening, as shocking in its way as the stoning of the child in Edward Bond's play The other central character is Hannah (Olivia Colman), a quiet Christian woman of a rather demonstrative kind from a nearby middle-class estate.