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NOTHING COMPARES

September 21, 2022 By 1 Comment

NOTHING COMPARES

It is high time for a re-appraisal of Sinéad O’Connor. Now best remembered with a tinge of distaste for tearing up a picture of the Pope on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992, the singer is the focus of Kathryn Ferguson’s documentary, NOTHING COMPARES. Centering on O’Connor’s precipitous rise to stardom at barely 21 to the… Read More »

Tagged With: Catholic Church, child abuse, controversy, Ireland, misogyny, music industry, patriarchy, Prince, Saturday Night Live

FINDING YOU

May 12, 2021 By 1 Comment

FINDING YOU

FINDING YOU is the quintessence of YA fiction brought to cinematic life. In it, our ordinary, yet winsome heroine, Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) is pursued by a famous movie star, is the only hope of settling a decades-long family feud, and puts all the snooty girls in her orbit in their respective places. All while… Read More »

Tagged With: family feud, fiddling, Ireland, music, teen hearthob, violin

THE BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL

April 19, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL

There is an air of Celtic melancholy running through the, ahem, deadpan humor of THE BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL. That touch elevates the, further ahem, stakes in this horror comedy that takes a few swipes at fraught family relationships, a sinking economy, and Bram Stoker’s relevance when a real vampire resurfaces. The supernatural is almost… Read More »

Tagged With: Celtic legend, father-son relationship, folklore, freak accident, Ireland, vampire

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

December 13, 2020 By 1 Comment

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME

John Patrick Shanley’s WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, based on his play Outside Mulligan, is a charmer of an Irish muddle. Committed in its gentle eccentricity, it essays to find the mythic in the quotidien and darn near pulls it off. At least sly humor abounds as the determined Rosemary (Emily Blunt) pines for Anthony (Jamie Dornan)… Read More »

Tagged With: farming, inheritance, Ireland, romance

MAZE

April 5, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MAZE

There is a distinct strain of melancholy nihilism throughout Stephen Burke’s MAZE. Based on the 1983 prison break by 38 inmates of the eponymous maximum security prison in Norther Ireland, it mixes the suspense of plotting an escape dependant upon split-second timing from an inescapable prison with the psychological games the prisoners play with the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, hunger strike, IRA, Ireland, prison break

PILGRIMAGE

September 3, 2017 By Leave a Comment

PILGRIMAGE

PILGRIMAGE tells a dour tale of faith and fanaticism. Set in 13th-century Ireland, it blends mysticism with realpolitik in a time and place so distant from ours that a subtext of imperialism might be almost too subtle, while the vicious commonplaces of summary justice, revenge, and casual violence are all too vivid A prologue set… Read More »

Tagged With: battle, Christianity, fairy fort, fanaticism, gore, holy relic, Ireland, monastery, monks, Normans, religion

Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

July 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

Ken Loach has never been a filmmaker to shy away from politics. In fact, a case could be made that the reason he makes films is to explore politics, the which he has done with such strident films as BREAD AND ROSES (union organizing in contemporary Los Angeles) and LAND AND FREEDOM (the Spanish Civil… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Henry, Andrew Scott, Barry Ward, based on a true story, Donal O'Kelly, exile, Ireland, Iris Civil War, Irish Civil War, Jim Norton, Ken Loach, Marxism, narrative, Paul Laverty, Simone Kirby, stage to screen

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

February 4, 2015 By 2 Comments

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

SONG OF THE SEA reminds us of the power of simplicity in storytelling and in animation.  Hand-drawn and steeped in Irish folklore, it is a profoundly moving experience rife with charm, wisdom, and beauty.  Told from a child’s perspective, the magical and the mundane coalesce in perfect harmony, revealing the one in the other in… Read More »

Tagged With: Celtic, cinema, drama, film, folklore, Ireland, Irish, Macha, mythology, narrative, ocean, Owl Witch, seal, selkie

Ivan Cooper Relives BLOODY SUNDAY

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Ivan Cooper  was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, where he was a founding member of the SDLP. His was a commitment to non-violence, and the march he was leading on January 30, 1972, was planned as a peaceful protest against the British government’s draconian internment policy that could lock someone up indefinitely and… Read More »

Tagged With: 1972, based on a true story, Derry, IRA, Ireland, Ireland IRA trouble politics, Ivan Cooper, politics, SDLP, troubles

John McDonagh Hires THE GUARD

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

John McDonagh Hires THE GUARD

John McDonagh garnered acclaim for his screenplay, NED KELLY, but didn’t like the way it was translated to the big screen. The experience gave him the perfect impetus to come up with a screenplay that he could direct himself. Conceived as a low-budget project that would allow him the artistic freedom he craved, THE GUARD… Read More »

Tagged With: drug cartel, Ireland, John McDonagh, murder, narrative, pink bicycle, police, prop guns, race relations, smuggling

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