Richard Shepard’s Dom Hemingway, starring Jude Law as an aging felon and Richard E. Grant (yes) as his best friend, is a bizarre genre hybrid of gangster entertainment and family tearjerker. At first ...

Comedy. Starring Jude Law and Richard E. Grant. Directed by Richard Shepard. (R. 93 minutes.) I never would have thought Jude Law, that wispy-thin pretty boy of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and the ...

Dom Hemingway, played by a nearly unrecognizable Jude Law, is not a nice fellow; he’s the sort who, in his own words, would “gut you with a dull cheese knife and sing Gilbert and Sullivan while I do ...

When he began work on the script that would become Dom Hemingway, writer-director Richard Shepard says he simply wanted to create an “unusual character.” “I wanted to make a crime movie that didn’t ...

Going bald is the best thing that ever happened to Jude Law. Britain’s prettiest export did the best he could with his burden of good looks. He played a genetic ideal in Gattaca, a robotic ideal in ...

Jude Law has long wanted to leave his mark on the British gangster genre, and his patience pays off in this talky comeback role. The project also benefits from the interval of time, now that the ...

After finding a glut of recent work in television, it’s good to see writer-director Richard Shepard back in theaters with Dom Hemingway. As a big fan of both The Matador and The Hunting Party — ...

“Dom Hemingway” opens with a scene where Jude Law gives an uninterrupted, unflinching monologue about his penis, an idea that came naturally to the film’s writer-director Richard Shepard. “I can talk ...

Bob Hoskins. Michael Caine. Terence Stamp. Clive Owen. Stephen Graham. When you think about the most noteworthy faces of English hard-men films, these are some of the names that come to mind. But Jude ...

Moments after the lights go down and the projector light hits the screen, it becomes obvious why the once-beautiful Jude Law jumped at the chance to gain weight and play the comic grotesquerie that is ...