Looking for home-grown horror for Halloween? Both grassroots and international talent are finally embracing the rich opportunities afforded by making films in Northern Ireland. Such films may not be to everybody’s taste, but if you can bear to watch from behind your cushion, be sure to check out these tales of terror right on your Northern Irish doorstep.
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN actress Kerry Condon will receive the distinguished performance award at the SCAD Oct 22. Condon launched her stage career with celebrated performances in McDonagh’s plays THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE and THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN and also appeared in his Academy Award-winning feature THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.
Irish actor Jack Reynor has stepped out with his co-star Chloe Grace Moretz for a “special screening” of their new series. The pair star in the new Amazon Studios sci-fi series, THE PERIPHERAL, which launches on Amazon Prime on October 21. Reynor, who grew up in Valleymount, west Wicklow, plays marine veteran Burton Fisher while Moretz plays his sister Flynne.
Sister Michael has ruled the hallways of Our Lady Immaculate with an iron fist throughout DERRY GIRLS. Portrayed by an eye-rolling Siobhán McSweeney, the character commands respect, fear, and lots of laughter. In a new Vulture magazine interview, the Cork-born actress reveals her hopes for the legendary nun’s reputation.
BLADE RUNNER 2099, a TV series based on the iconic Blade Runner films, is to be filmed in Northern Ireland. The series has been commissioned by the streaming giant Amazon with Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 BLADE RUNNER film, as executive producer. Northern Ireland Screen chief executive Richard Williams made the announcement on Tuesday.
Niamh Algar is in good company, joining the likes of Florence Pugh, Ciarán Hinds and Toby Jones on this tragic yet compelling story set 13 years after the Great Famine. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Emma Donoghue (of Room fame), The Wonder is inspired by true stories of the 19-th century ‘fasting girls’ phenomenon and tells the tale of a young girl who claims to have gone months without eating – subsisting solely on manna from heaven.
A Belfast-born actress who stars in the HBO science fiction drama THE NEVERS has revealed she would love to return to the city’s Lyric Theatre. Laura Donnelly was speaking ahead of the release of WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, a TV special based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and the first Marvel Halloween special on Disney+.
The beloved DERRY GIRLS returns to Netflix today. Season 3 serves as a fitting cap for the hilarious and heartfelt comedy, and concludes with a 45-minute episode set against the backdrop of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The series is able to end, pristine and in peak form, before the onset of implausible aging or the inevitable softening of characters that afflicts long-running sitcoms. Like one’s own teenage kicks, it couldn’t go on forever.