Category Archives: Irish Film

THE SOUVENIR PT2 Review

Produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, THE SOUVENIR PT2 is director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical drama, in which a young film-maker finds her creative path after a doomed love affair. In this flipside second instalment of Hogg’s most personal and surprisingly most accessible work, the word “souvenir” takes on a rather more metatextual meaning. This time the film itself becomes a kind of cinematic keepsake, a memory of a memory (or a dream of a dream?) set in the aftermath of Julie’s relationship with the heroin-addicted Anthony.

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Ireland shines with BAFTA noms

Irish actors Caitríona Balfe, Jessie Buckley, Ciarán Hinds and Ruth Negga are among the nominees for the BAFTA Film Awards in the UK. Balfe, Buckley, and Negga are nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for their performances in BELFAST, THE LOST DAUGHTER, and PASSING, respectively. Balfe’s BELFAST co-star Ciarán Hinds is among the nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category. In total, BELFAST has received six nominations, with its writer-director Kenneth Branagh and editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle also shortlisted.

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Dornan joins HEART OF STONE

Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan has been cast in an upcoming Netflix film where he will star alongside actress Gal Gadot. Directed by Tom Harper, HEART OF STONE is described as an “international spy thriller”, however the plot of the film has yet to be unveiled. he Hollywood Reporter also describes the film as a “potential franchise-starter”.

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Star alongside Neeson!

Filming on action thriller IN THE LAND OF SAINTS & SINNERS is to begin in March in Killybegs and Glencolmcille. The action adventure tells the story of a retired assassin who is forced into a game of cat and mouse with three terrorists. Now, the film’s producers, along with the Donegal Film Office, have issued a call for movie trainees to work on the film.

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Irish Film

Saoirse Ronan to Star in THE OUTRUN

Saoirse Ronan is set to star in THE OUTRUN, the new film from THE UNFORGIVEABLE director Nora Fingscheidt. Ronan, a four-time Oscar nominee, will play Rona, a woman fresh out of rehab who, after more than a decade away, returns to Scotland’s wild Orkney Islands and to the sheep farm of her childhood, in the adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir of the same name. Fingscheidt and Liptrot have adapted the book for the screen.

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DOINEANN makes cinematic history

An Irish language film shot and produced in Northern Ireland has hit the big screens in what’s been hailed as a cinematic first. DOINEANN – which means ‘stormy weather’ – was filmed on Strangford Lough and is inspired by Rathlin Island. The gripping thriller is set on a remote island where a mother and her baby mysteriously disappear.

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Colin Farrell’s Penguin transformation

Whoever said becoming the Penguin would be easy? Veteran actor Colin Farrell, who certainly looks nothing like the traditional depiction of Oswald Cobblepot in Batman lore, will be starring as the supervillain in Matt Reeves’ upcoming film THE BATMAN. What has gotten many surprised by the sneak peek photos is how Farrell is completely unrecognizable in makeup as the Penguin to the point where most people probably wouldn’t even know that it’s him. Fans can see Farrell in the role when THE BATMAN is released on March 4, 2022.

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NOTHING COMPARES Review

In NOTHING COMPARES, Kathryn Ferguson’s incisive and poignant documentary about the life and career of Sinéad O’Connor, we see the image that was chosen in 1987 for the cover of O’Connor’s first album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” made when she was 20 years old and pregnant: an extraordinary photograph of Sinéad in mid-scream. O’Connor has made seven albums since then and toured extensively, but in terms of the fame by which the pop stratosphere defines itself, Sinéad O’Connor was a fire that went out too fast. NOTHING COMPARES makes you see it’s still burning.

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