One of the best and most significant Irish films ever made has just arrived on Netflix. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER reunited director Jim Sheridan with star Daniel Day-Lewis in a powerful biopic that examines the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people.
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.
Liam Neeson is returning for another action thriller centred on an ageing assassin on a mission of vengeance. The Ballymena-born star is teaming up with Martin Campbell, whose previous credits include Casino Royale and Goldeneye, on the new film titled MEMORY.
Olivia Cooke can do no wrong — even as she’s doing lots of it in her latest movie, Irish new release PIXIE, where she plays the most intriguing femme fatale to come along in many a rising moon. PIXIE is a jaunty, Tarantino-wannabe contraption, loaded with double and quadruple crosses, genre-mashing diversions and loads of idiots dying sudden, violent deaths.
A new show boasts a stellar Irish and international cast lead by Game of Thrones star Aidan Gillen, breakthrough Irish actress Clare Dunne and Charlie Cox. Ciarán Hinds, Sam Keeley, Emmett Scanlan, Maria Doyle Kennedy and newcomer Yasmin Seky will also star in the new series.
New noir thriller SMOTHER, starring Dervla Kirwan and Seána Kerslake and filmed in Lahinch, County Clare, debuts on RTÉ One on March 7th. Kirwan plays family matriarch Val Ahern – a devoted mother who is determined to protect her family and particularly her three daughters Jenny, Anna, and Grace, at any cost.
Rising Irish actor Barry Keoghan will play a world-champion snooker player plagued by gambling addiction who escapes to China in search of a fresh start only to become indebted to illegal bookmakers and forced into a mortal dilemma; throw the biggest match of his life or save his soul. The film is currently in pre-production with filming scheduled for fall 2021in Taiwan.
The casting for the television and streaming adaptation of Irish author Sally Rooney’s CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS has been announced. Newcomer Alison Oliver, a native of Co Cork, who has been cast as Frances in the upcoming series. She is joined by Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane and Jemima Kirke.