Richard Linklater’s BLUE MOON is the kind of film that knows exactly who it’s for and makes no attempt to dilute itself for anyone else. Set almost entirely over one night inside Sardi’s restaurant on the opening of OKLAHOMA! in 1943, the film unfolds less like a traditional biopic and more like a rueful, jazz-inflected chamber piece: talky, intimate, deeply literary, and quietly devastating. It’s classic Linklater territory, where time suspends itself and conversation becomes action, where character reveals itself not through plot mechanics but through rhythm, contradiction, and emotional drift.
The supporting cast is uniformly strong, with Andrew Scott offering a coolly contained, subtly cutting Richard Rodgers, a man who understands Hart perhaps too well. Bobby Cannavale brings warmth and grounded humanity as Eddie the bartender, while Margaret Qualley plays Elizabeth Weiland not as a manic pixie fantasy but as a young woman whose kindness and confusion inadvertently sharpen Hart’s despair. Their scenes together are among the film’s most quietly cruel, not because of malice, but because of emotional asymmetry, because two people can occupy the same moment and experience entirely different versions of it. Visually restrained and modest in scale, BLUE MOON resists the temptation to romanticize its subject or its era. Shane F. Kelly’s cinematography keeps us close, almost uncomfortably so, while Graham Reynolds’ score hums gently in the background, never insisting on emotion but allowing it to surface naturally.
This is not a flashy film, nor does it aspire to be. Its pleasures are intellectual, emotional, and deeply human, the kind that linger long after the lights come up, not because they announce themselves but because they accumulate quietly, like regret, like memory, like all the things we say and fail to say when we know time is running out.
Caitríona Balfe has joined Disney`s live-action TANGLED as Queen Arianna, Rapunzel`s long-lost mother.
She joins a growing cast that includes Teagan Croft, Milo Manheim, Kathryn Hahn with the film set for cinemas on March 31, 2028.
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He`s baaaack!
@piercebrosnanofficial returns in MOBLAND season two with Helen Mirren and everyone`s favourite bad boy, Tom Hardy, premiering Sep 18 only on @paramountplus.
Watch now via link in bio 🔗︎
Domhnall Gleeson is back in THE PAPER Season 2!
Ned isn`t just central to the newsroom drama anymore, he`s now the editor of the Toledo Truth Teller, steering the team through two major investigations: a fire death and a tornado aftermath.
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Martin McDonagh is back 🎬
The Galway and Sligo-rooted writer-director behind IN BRUGES and THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN has unveiled the trailer for WILD HORSE NINE and is headed to @tiff_net.
In cinemas November 6th. Who`s ready? 👇
Caitríona Balfe is heading back to television 👁️
The OUTLANDER star teams with Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón for ASCENSION, a psychological horror thriller for Apple TV, playing Rose, a documentary filmmaker probing a mysterious 20th-century cult... only to find something far more sinister waiting beneath its teachings.
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Phoenix rising 🔥🎬
CILLIAN MURPHY and wife Yvonne McGuinness have got the green light to bring Dingle`s beloved Phoenix Cinema back to life — not just as a cinema, but as a full-blown creative hub for west Kerry.
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Aisling Bea is going to Mars 🚀
The Irish actress and BAFTA TV winner has joined the cast of STARMAN, starring alongside Brendan Fraser and Jeff Daniels, playing defiant Irish photographer Julia Hanley opposite Fraser`s stranded astronaut.
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Irish director Lenny Abrahamson (NORMAL PEOPLE, ROOM) is set to direct YOU ARE HERE.
The eight-part screen adaptation of David Nicholls` best-selling novel will star Claire Foy (THE CROWN) and Matthew MacFayden (SUCCESSION)
Full details via link in bio 🔗︎
Barry Keoghan heads back into Irish indie territory with LEMONADE 🍋
First-look images and details have landed for Kim Bartley`s narrative feature debut, a story about first loves, second chances, and the ties that make a family.
Full preview via link in bio 🔗︎
