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.
Monaghan`s own @ardalohanlon is a busy man these days!
Ardal’s new novel A PLOT TO DIE FOR is almost here and Ardal is taking it on the road. Join him live at bookshops and festivals across the UK this May and September.
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THE MUMMY is coming to theaters Fri Apr 17.
Lee Cronin—the visionary behind THE HOLE IN THE GROUND and EVIL DEAD RISE—is back with an audacious, twisted retelling that`s already getting rave reviews. A young girl vanishes for eight years. When she finally returns, what should be a joyful reunion becomes a living nightmare.
Watch trailer now at irishfilmtv.com.
SNL UK IS BACK AND WE`RE LIVING FOR IT 🚨✨
Nicola Coughlan (yes, THAT Nicola Coughlan) is hosting on April 25th with the absolute legends that are @foofighters taking the stage 🎸
DERRY GIRLS fans, BRIDGERTON obsessives, this is your moment!
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Graham Norton is stepping into uncharted territory with THE NEIGHBOURHOOD—an ITV gameshow that`s about to flip the reality TV script entirely.
What happens when you put everyday people in extraordinary circumstances and ask them to compete against their neighbors for serious money?
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17 years old. A trip to Holland. Two Irish lads with big dreams and zero idea what was coming.
That`s where Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson bonded—and it changed everything. 🎬
In a beautiful moment on the Late Late Show, Hinds reflected on the power of those formative years—and why family, not accolades, is what truly matters. 💫
Watch now at irishfilmtv.com.
72 hours. One decision. Everything on the line.
Andrew Scott is stepping into one of WWII`s most untold stories in the upcoming film PRESSURE—where a meteorologist`s weather forecast became the most consequential prediction in history.
Watch new trailer at irishfilmtv.com.
🎬 THE YEAR OF ÉANNA HARDWICKE 🎬
From SAIPAN to THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD to NO ORDINARY HEIST—this is the actor`s defining moment. An IFTA winner. A West End star. Now a desperate man caught in a heist like no other.
In cinemas THIS WEEK: a gripping true story of the infamous Northern Bank robbery. £26.5 million. Two families held hostage. No way out.
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BELFAST`s Jamie Dornan will host SNL UK this weekend.
Dornan, known for his role in FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and THE TOURIST, will front the program alongside Brit-award winning band Wolf Alice.
The show marks the first British incarnation of the sketch series, which was created by Lorne Michaels and first launched in the US in 1975.
Watch now at irishfilmtv.com.
In a brand-new interview, OUTLANDER star/executive producer, Caitríona Balfe, discusses THAT pivotal Season 8, Episode 3 scene where Claire saves a baby.
A must-watch for OUTLANDER fans!
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