Category Archives: Irish Film

RIVERDANCE the (animated) movie

A full-length, animated RIVERDANCE feature film with a truly star-studded cast will premiere on Sky Cinema and streaming service NOW later this month. The film tells the story of a young boy named Keegan (Sam Hardy) and a Spanish girl named Moya (Hannah Herman Cortes) as they journey into the mythical world of the legendary Megaloceros Giganteus, who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration of life – a lesson that will surely resonate any Irish person since 1994?

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Screen WILD MOUNTAIN THYME from home

The most talked about Irish movie of the last 12 months (for all the wrong reasons) is now available to screen from home for Irish audiences. Irish social media went mad lambasting the star-studded film featuring Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christoper Walken, and Jon Hamm for the woeful Irish accents. Find out why via the link below.

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BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL review

Charming is the right word to use, mostly because it’s Irish; fans of Edgar Wright’s SHAUN OF THE DEAD will feel right at home. Here, though, BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL’s comedy mostly comes from deadpan realism—from vampire-zombies who emerge and go for the kill, and from living characters yelling expletives who spend most of the 90 minutes fleeing chaos and bickering.

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Liam Neeson in MADE IN ITALY

Liam Neeson has told of how the script for his new movie – about a father and son who bond after their wife and mother dies – left his gut “churning” because it mirrored his own life. The TAKEN star said while the script for MADE IN ITALY wasn’t written for him, it was “near the knuckle” following the death of his wife, Natasha Richardson.

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TOWN OF STRANGERS – review

TOWN OF STRANGERS is almost certainly a documentary, but it began life as something like a drama. O’Brien arrived in the Co Galway town of Gort – also subject of the recent doc When All Is Ruin Once Again – with a mind to casting actors for a fictional film. She drives about in a van blasting out requests for the locals’ “loves and losses”, and, intrigued by the auditionees’ stories, decides to make them the subject of the picture.

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U2: The Virtual Road

U2 have announced online concert film series The Virtual World, that will be broadcast on the band’s YouTube channel. The series will showcase four of U2’s most legendary performances from over their four-decade career, kicking off on March 17 with the band’s 2001 concert at Slane Castle in County Meath. It will be the first time ever that three of the concerts have been made available digitally, and they will remain available to watch online for 48 hours after their broadcast.

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