Tag: Jack Lowden

Don’t fight it, ‘Fighting with My Family’ is a good movie

Jeff Mitchell

“Fighting with My Family” – Some people want to be rock ‘n’ roll singers, and others hope to be cowboys.  For proof, just look back at Bon Scott’s wish in AC/DC’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Singer” (1975) and Boys Don’t Cry’s declaration in “I Wanna Be a Cowboy” (1986).  Other folks dream of becoming ballerinas, center fielders, quarterbacks, teachers, doctors, or astronauts. For Saraya-Jade Bevis (Florence Pugh), she wants to be a WWE wrestler.  Actually, her dad Ricky (Nick Frost), mom Julia (Lena Headey) and brother Zak (Jack Lowden) all have…

‘Tommy’s Honour’ birdies, pars and bogeys

Jeff Mitchell

“Tommy’s Honour” – “I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland.  I always have.” – Tom Watson Many, many fans rightfully consider Tom Watson as golf-royalty, but “Tommy’s Honour” is a biopic about another athlete of the links, Tommy Morris (Jack Lowden), a 19th Century prodigy from Scotland. He is also known as Young Tom, because his father – naturally – is nicknamed Old Tom (Peter Mullan), a masterful greenskeeper at the legendary St Andrews golf course.  Director Jason Connery chronicles Tommy’s rise as…