Look fella, it's a nasty business, but this sort of thing has to be done, for the country's sake. Right?" So runs a line spoken by Kenny, the main character in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's 1995 film Nothing Personal, which starred James Frain, Ian Hart, John Lynch and Michael Gambon. It is a powerful scene in which we witness the leader of a loyalist paramilitary gang articulate his principal motivation for killing to a new recruit, before they head out to stalk the dimly-lit labyrinth-like streets of 1970s Belfast in search of those they have labelled "enemies of Ulster". It is 20 years since Nothing Personal got its major theatrical release and in the intervening period there have been only a...
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