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Hibernia: Irish Eye on Hollywood

By Tom Deignan

March 28, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Meaney's Horror Unwelcome It’s going to be a creepy St. Patrick’s Day for Colm Meaney. In March, look for the great Irish actor in a new horror thriller –set in Ireland - called Unwelcome. The film explores a young London couple (Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth) whose exciting dreams of big city living have turned into a nightmare. With a baby on the way, the couple … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Irish Eye on Hollywood

Hibernia: Irish Eye On Hollywood

By Tom Deignan

Summer 2021

September 10, 2021 by

Netflix 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

Irish Eye on Hollywood: Farrell to Channel DeVito’s Evil Penguin in The Batman Flick

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
March / April 2020

March 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment

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

Irish Eye on Hollywood: From Gone Girl to Widows

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
November/ December 2018

November 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

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

Irish Eye on Hollywood: Irish Shine in Steve McQueen’s New Thriller

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
April / May 2018

February 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment

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

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