BAD SISTERS star, Eve Hewson’s latest film, FLORA AND SON, is now available for streaming on Apple TV. Single mum Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max (Orén Kinlan). Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA musician (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Flora and Max discover the transformative power of music.
In a new Esquire magazine interview, Oscar-winning Irish actor, Barry Keoghan, discusses how he joined the DC Extended Universe. using a make-shift audition tape of himself, Keoghan successfully caught the attention of BATMAN director Matthew Reeves, who offered him a role in the film. Not as the Riddler, though—that was scooped by Paul Dano. Instead, Reeves tapped Keoghan as the Joker.
In Irish thriller, BARBER, Aidan Gillen takes on the role of Val Barber, a P.I. who is tasked with finding a missing girl. While battling his own inner demons and repairing the relationship with his family, the case of the missing girl becomes far darker than Barber could have possibly imagined. The detective soon finds himself entangled with powerful men of shady morals, who are all determined to thwart his investigation.
After providing the raw fodder for Charlie Kaufman’s characteristically cryptic I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, Canadian novelist Iain Reid serves up more brain-bender material in Garth Davis’ FOE. Anchored by emotionally raw performances from Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, with Aaron Pierre as a stranger bringing equal parts seductive charm and understated menace, this brooding psychological sci-fi about a dying planet and a floundering marriage.
Dublin-born actor, Sir Michael Gambon, of HARRY POTTER fame, has died at the age of 82. Gambon was known for his extensive catalog of work across TV, film and radio, with another of his biggest roles as the psoriasis-ridden sleuth in the 1980s hit series THE SINGING DETECTIVE. He grew up in an Irish immigrant community in Camden and his first job was as an apprentice toolmaker.
The reviews for BALLYWALTER are in! The Irish Independent says “Patrick Kielty is a revelation and Seána Kerslake exemplary in this moving drama. Together they created something wonderful, something unique, something that deserves to find an audience. Armed with a moving, meaningful screenplay by Stacey Gregg, BALLYWALTER speaks only when it needs to. It is, at its core, a refreshingly honest tale about depression, about what happens when the light begins to fade”.
The first trailer for ALL OF US STRANGERS, starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, has been released. From director Andrew Haigh, and in theatres December 22nd, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
In his latest interview, the Dublin actor talks about his new movie DANCE FIRST, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles. DANCE FIRST premieres at the San Sebastian film festival on 29 and 30 September, is in UK cinemas in November, on Sky Cinema in December and on Sky Arts in 2024.