Written by David Coggeshall, THE FAMILY PLAN tells the story of a suburban dad who must take his family on the run when his past catches up with him. Hinds is coming off his Oscar-nominated performance in Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST. The film also stars Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan. Simon Cellan Jones, who recently collaborated with Wahlberg on ARTHUR THE KING, will direct.
Charlotte Wells’ moving debut feature AFTERSUN details a father-daughter vacation at a cheap resort in Turkey. There’s something unknowable about Calum (Paul Mescal), and maybe this is because Sophie (Frankie Corio) is a child, and he’s her dad, and she’s just about coming to the age where she’s separating herself and becoming her own person. As both a gorgeous ode to the faultlines of memory in family life, and a single, heartbreaking portrait of a father and daughter set to prematurely part ways on a number of levels, AFTERSUN is a genuinely standout feature debut.
A new film about Ireland’s direct provision system starring Black Panther’s Letitia Wright is set for release this week. Filmmaker Frank Berry got the idea for AISHA while making an entirely different project back in 2017. The Dubliner was researching Michael Inside, a film about Irish prison life, when he discovered that the Department of Justice also ran Ireland’s immigration system. Five years on, AISHA will be released in cinemas and on Sky Cinema on Thursday, 17 November.
In the new film version of Emma Donoghue’s richly absorbing novel THE WONDER, we confront what the march of history and colonialism has done to Ireland. The film opens in 1862, ten years after the Great Hunger, in a windswept midlands village where a local girl called Anna O’Donnell is somehow hale and hearty after forty days of refusing food since her eleventh birthday. THE WONDER will is now available on Netflix via link below.
Meet Niamh McCormack – the 21-year-old attended Bow Street Academy after finishing school in 2019. She impressively went on to land a break-out role in a season two episode of Netflix’s THE WITCHER. You can expect a lot more of the 21-year-old on your small screens, as she is set to star in Disney+’s new series WILLOW, and Netflix’s upcoming series THE FUCK IT BUCKET.
Out of all the Irish creative dynasties, one that makes us most proud is the Gleeson family — namely veteran Irish actor Brendan Gleeson and his sons, Domhnall and Brian. From unworldly fantasies to side-busting comedy, these actors have it all. We break down Brendan’s “must watch” projects, from IN BRUGES to CALVARY and everything in between.
Boyle’s-own Chris O’Dowd stars in the new animated movie SLUMBERLAND, now on Netflix. Joined by a larger-than-life outlaw, a daring young orphan journeys through a land of dreams to find a precious pearl that will grant her greatest wish. For O’Dowd, the film recreates the fun and excitement of our childhood days as he plays the awkward, loner, workaholic bachelor uncle Philip who is suddenly thrust into parenthood after his only brother, a fisherman, gets missing at sea and leaves a daughter, Nemo (played by Marlow Barkley), to the former’s care being the closest living relative.
Co. Tipperary actress Kerry Condon is to be honoured at next year’s Oscar Wilde Awards in the US, it has been confirmed. The annual ceremony celebrates the Irish contribution to the entertainment industry, and Ms Condon will follow in the footsteps of Belfast stars Kenneth Branagh and Jamie Dornan, who were honoured at the awards earlier this year. Ms Condon, who currently stars alongside Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in director Martin McDonagh’s THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, is being honoured for her body of work which also includes voicing the role of artificial intelligence Friday in three of Marvel Studio’s Avengers films.