“Here’s One We Made Earlier …”

Huzzah! The official 90-second trailer for Anton, a movie for which we have very high hopes despite the fact that it’s executive produced by professional mentaller Pat McArdle (right, in full-on The Hills Have Eyes mode), has hit the interweb highway and not a moment too soon. For lo! The chaps and chapesses behind Anton are swanning off to Cannes, no less, there to disport themselves shamelessly with ingénues and generally act the proverbial maggot. If you do happen to be in the vicinity of Cannes in the week starting May 18, get yourself along to the Palais Des Festivals Theatre K at noon, where the world premiere of Anton will be taking place. Oh, and be sure not to mention Crime Always Pays sent you, they’ll only call the gendarmes. Roll it there, Collette …

Lights, Camera, Anton

A movie to watch out for, folks - set in the bandit country of Cavan during the 1970s against a backdrop of Norn Iron's 'Troubles', Anton is a gritty thriller about a good man doing bad things for all the right reasons. Anthony Fox (right) wrote the script, and also stars, Graham Cantwell directs, while Gerard McSorley chips in with - shock-horror, etc. - a borderline psycho portrait of a bent copper. We should probably 'fess up and say that we've been known on occasion to drink a tincture of dry sherry with the producer, Pat McArdle, but we saw the extended thriller of this one a few months ago and it looks the business - we're thinking it might just be the best Irish crime movie since I Went Down, and the movie that puts a smidge of credibility back into the Irish film industry. Yep, it looks that good ... The trailer should be ready to run any day now, so stay in touch and we'll keep you posted.