Tag Archives: Drama

Dornan returns in TOURIST S2

Jamie Dornan

Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald are heading to Ireland for the second season of the thriller series THE TOURIST. The first season, which aired on the BBC in January 2022, became the most-watched drama of the year in the U.K. and won three Golden Nymphs awards at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. The new six-part thriller, commissioned by the BBC in association with Stan and ZDF, was created and written by Jack and Harry Williams and produced by award-winning Two Brothers Pictures (BAPTISTE, THE MISSING, FLEABAG) in association with All3Media International. Shooting is set to start this spring.

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Niamh Algar in MALPRACTICE

Niamh Algar

ITV has released the first image of Niamh Algar in medical thriller MALPRACTICE, where she plays a doctor suspected of wrongdoing following the death of a patient. The series comes from the mind of former NHS doctor Grace Ofori-Attah, whose earlier television work includes Idris Elba sitcom In the Long Run, while directing duties are being handled by BAFTA nominee Philip Barantini (THE RESPONDER). The five-part drama follows Dr Lucinda Edwards (Algar) as she is investigated following the death of an opioid overdose victim named Edith Owusu (Sherelle Armstrong).

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Saoirse Ronan in BLITZ

Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan is currently filming BLITZ by 12 YEARS A SLAVE director Steve McQueen. It is no secret Ronan is the film’s leading lady, and has been spotted with platinum blonde hair, fashioned into a vintage curl. The Oscar nominee has stunned audiences in popular films such as LADY BIRD and LITTLE WOMEN, and is no stranger to the big screen. The film, to be released by Apple, will tell the story of how Londoners survived the German bombing campaign.

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Keoghan lands BILLY THE KID role

Barry Keoghan

Dublin native Barry Keoghan has confirmed he is set to star in a new movie retelling the story of BILLY THE KID. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN star will be playing the cowboy in the movie directed Bart Layton-directed film. They aim to lean into the Kid’s Irish ancestry and complicated childhood.

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WOMEN TALKING review

Jessie Buckley

Jessie Buckley

The reviews are in for WOMEN TALKING, starring Jessie Buckley. This important film tells the story of a community battered by rape and patriarchal ideas, as a mainly female cast debate the repercussions of the brutality meted out to them. Sarah Polley’s sober, sombre ensemble picture stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Frances McDormand, among others, as traumatised female members of a remote, patriarchal religious colony, reminding us that the world of Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE really does exist more literally than you think.

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Brosnan in FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter are set to star in the Irish romance FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE directed by Polly Steele. Based on Niall Williams bestselling novel, the film will see Brosnan and Bonham Carter starring as the parents of fated lovers played by up-and-coming actors Fionn O’Shea (DANCE FIRST) and Ann Skelly (THE NEVERS). Gabriel Byrne will also star in the film.

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Neeson in MARLOWE

Liam Neeson

The classic noir plot follows a brooding, down on his luck detective who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress. He soon discovers that underneath the missing man’s disappearance lies a web of corruption that puts him right in the crosshairs of several of the city’s richest, and most dangerous constituents. Liam Neeson stars as the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s also joined by Jessica Lange, Colm Meaney and Alan Cumming.

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Mescal cast in GLADIATOR 2

Paul Mescal

The NORMAL PEOPLE actor has been cast in the starring role in Ridley Scott’s long-promised sequel to his 2000 Best Picture winner GLADIATOR. Mescal will take on the starring role of the adult Lucius (played by Spencer Treat Clark in the original movie), who will presumably have to give up his fancy “nephew of the now dead emperor” lifestyle in order to to live up to the example that Russell Crowe’s general-turned-gladiator Maximus set in the original movie.

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