Irish America
By Tom Deignan
Summer 2021Netflix is Continuing to Rely on Irish to Lure Viewers Among the streaming giant’s latest offerings is a true-crime documentary called Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, which revisits the 1996 death of a French woman who’d been staying at her Irish vacation home. This is just the latest Netflix documentary with strong Irish links. There is also Surviving Death, an exploration … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Irish Eye On Hollywood
By Tom Deignan, Columnist
March / April 2020
It would take quite a dedicated film historian, or very creative film producer, to pick out any role in movie history that both hunky Colin Farrell and balding and barrel-shaped Danny DeVito could both play. But that is yet another way superhero movies have changed the world. Because three decades after DeVito played the evil Penguin during the Michael Keaton Batman years, … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: Farrell to Channel DeVito’s Evil Penguin in The Batman Flick
By Tom Deignan, Columnist
November/ December 2018
In November, Liam Neeson and Colin Farrell will team up with Irish American writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) in a crime thriller loaded with talent. Entitled Widows, the film features Neeson as one of a quartet of thieves who are killed in the middle of a heist. Their widows (among them Oscar winner Viola Davis) decide to finish the job. Widows is based on a 1980s British … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: From Gone Girl to Widows
By Tom Deignan, Columnist
April / May 2018
There’s also lots of Irish-born and Irish American talent in the upcoming thriller Widows, directed by Steve McQueen, who also directed the Northern Ireland film Hunger. Described as a heist flick and due out in November when studios begin releasing their classy Oscar-bait films, Widows stars Colin Farrell and Liam Neeson and was written by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: Irish Shine in Steve McQueen’s New Thriller
By Tom Deignan, Contributor
August / September 2017
Speaking of Colin Farrell, the Dublin actor also has a full slate of films coming up. He was just in the much-praised Civil War drama The Beguiled (beside Nicole Kidman) and in November his second collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos (after The Lobster) will hit screens. The Killing of a Sacred Deer is being marketed as psychological thriller about the dangerous bond … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: The Summer of Farrell
