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THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh.

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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Director - Martin McDonagh, Cinematography - Ben Davis

"Some things there's no moving on from. And I think that's a good thing."

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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) ------------------------------------- dir. Martin McDonagh cin. Ben Davis cou. USA / UK

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Shardlake — trailer for new Tudor murder mystery series

Shardlake — trailer for new Tudor murder mystery series

Disney+ has released the official trailer for new murder mystery series, Shardlake, based on the Tudor murder mystery novels by CJ Sansom. The four-part drama, based on the first novel in Sansom’s series, is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. Shardlake’s sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when Cromwell instructs him to investigate the murder of…

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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Martin McDonagh

December 30th 2022

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I do worry sometimes I might just be entertaining myself while staving off the inevitable.

The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh (2022)

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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, dir. Martin McDonagh) - review by Rookie-Critic

The Banshees of Inisherin is a story about the corrupting power of cruelty and what can happen when we as people choose it over kindness. The powerhouse trio of director Martin McDonagh and stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are back for their first outing together since 2008's wildly hilarious In Bruges. This time, however, the film is much more somber in tone. It still has McDonagh's trademark humor, and the first two acts of the film especially are littered with the gut-bustingly funny chemistry that Farrell and Gleeson have (even if they are supposed to be at odds). The third act, while still containing some of that humor, is much more outwardly sad and leans into the despair and desperation of both characters almost full tilt. To me, it manages to balance both of these different tonal elements perfectly, at certain moments leaving the audience wanting to both laugh and cry simultaneously. Speaking in vague terms so as not to spoil anything, the unstoppable force definitely meets its immovable object here, and the clash is not only self destructive, but also counterproductive. The train is heading for the inevitable collision and never once stops to think it should attempt to brake. I'm normally not a fan of pessimistic movies, and this does on the surface seem to be exactly that, but I'm not so convinced that it's that cut and dry.

McDonagh's other three films (one of which, Seven Psychopaths, I admittedly have not seen) seem to practice an ideology that I have lovingly given the name "cynical optimism". Banshees, in a move that is both ballsy and, in my opinion, brilliant, chooses to go a different path, the exact opposite path, in fact, into what I can only describe as "hopeful pessimism". The film's central story of these two characters who can't seem to reconcile their very petty and small differences (or, at least, one of them can't) is set against the backdrop of early 1920s Ireland, at the tail end of the Irish Civil War. I'm not very familiar with Irish history or the nitty-gritty details of this war, but from what little I have read, it seems that it was a war that did nothing but divide a country that could have been stronger together, so it clearly mirrors our two troubled leads. The one character that seems to understand this, on both counts, is Siobhán Súilleabháin, the sister to Farrell's character Pádraic, played wonderfully by Kerry Condon. Siobhán pleads with both sides to try and reach some kind of peaceful conclusion, and it all seems to fall on deaf ears. There's also Barry Keoghan's character Dominic, who is essentially the town fool, but even he can see the unwinnable situation that Gleeson's Colm Doherty has put them in, and just wishes for everyone involved to just wash their hands of it and go their separate ways. I can tell that I'm rambling trying to talk around the major plot points of the film, and I can't go into the details of how I feel about its message and what it all means to me without heading into stark spoiler territory, so I'll just say this: I think Banshees functions well as a cautionary tale, with its one flaw being that the way it chooses to tell its tale can easily be misconstrued as hopeless. However, for me, it worked wonders, and it has cemented itself as my favorite film of McDonagh's, one of my favorite performances out of Farrell, and it has put itself firmly in the upper echelon of this year's offerings in my book.

Score: 10/10

Currently streaming on HBO Max.

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THE GATES (2023) British horror - trailer and release news

‘Death is just the beginning’ The Gates is a 2023 British horror film in which a serial killer has been sentenced to death by electric chair in London in the 1890s. However, in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in, and all of those in it. Directed by Stephen Hall from a screenplay co-written with Tim Reynolds based on the latter’s storyline. Produced by Michael Jones, John…

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The Banshees of Inisherin

Movies watched in 2023

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, UK/USA)

Director & Writer: Martin McDonagh

Mini-review:

I must admit this movie was not what I expected, and I feel like the trailers were a bit misguiding. I thought it was going to focus on the mysterious reason why Colm ends the friendship with Pádraic, but that was solved almost right away and it was... underwhelming. I understand what the movie was trying to do, and the themes it deals with were interesting, but I just feel like we got off on the wrong foot. Still, the script has some really funny (and dark) moments and the acting by the four main actors is simply sublime. And the cinematography and the score are gorgeous, too. So yeah, this is definitely not a bad movie, but it just didn't meet the expectations I had, based on all the promotional material.

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The Banshees of Inisherin - Movie Review

The Banshees of Inisherin – Movie Review

TL;DR – A odd yet sad film of life in a small village that escalates out of all control ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit sceneDisclosure – I paid to see this film. The Banshees of Inisherin Review – Today I have a slightly frustrating film to review, and unfortunately for them, it is not their fault. I work out of Australia, and for some reason, this…

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While on the topic of casting I watched the Banshees of Inesherin this weekend and as soon as I saw the priest (played by David Pearse) I said that guy would definitely be Teacher. I don’t know how tall he is but he gives short vibes

You know what he DOES give short vibes. And teacher is Yoda sized in my head. I can see it. actually you know what? Changed my mind. just cast the original Yoda puppet as teacher instead

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Justice 11 - Ein Hinweis!

Ryan hat nun doch Gewissensbisse. Das hat er nun davon.

Seine Schwester Emily wäscht ihm den Kopf und kitzelt aus ihm heraus, dass er sich in David verliebt hat. Liebe sei harte Arbeit, aber die sei es wert, meint sie.

Inzwischen finden David, Katherine und Julia eine verwertbare Spur: Ehemalige Mitarbeiter*innen aus dem Labor bei Campbell Industries, die mit einer hohen Abfindung gegangen sind. David telefoniert sie alle ab. Alle klingen verängstigt und wollen zunächst nichts sagen, doch eine gewisse Dorothy Pearse ruft ihn am nächsten Tag doch zurück und berichtet ihm Die Wahrheit™.

Sie hatte zwar eine Verschwiegenheitserklärung unterschrieben, hat aber wenig Probleme, mit dieser zu brechen, da sie selbst zwar nicht krank ist, doch während ihrer Zeit im Labor zwei Fehlgeburten erlitt.

David spricht ihr sein Mitgefühl aus und ist erleichtert, endlich etwas in der Hand zu haben.

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In The Cry for the Dead, her fine, early account of the squatter invasion, the poet Judith Wright wrote of whites driven mad for revenge by Hornet Bank and by the fear that it marked the start of a general uprising:

Arrivals from English families . . . rode out beside their own stockmen and shepherds in days and nights of bloodshed which spared no Aboriginal camp. It was not . . . a very long war, but it was a thorough one, though it went largely unrecorded. In scraps of reminiscence written down long years later, men recalled the great bottle-tree around whose trunk dozens of Aborigines were handcuffed, to be killed off at leisure; the swamps into which others were driven, the mountains where they stood at bay to be killed. Pearse Serocold and his party roped together a dozen or more men, led them into open country, and let them loose to run as moving targets for the carbines.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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Captain Pearse's list of pirates intending to take the King's Pardon (sorted)

Abraham Adam Adams Addy Adonijah Alexander Allen Andrew Andrews Anthony Archibald Arrowsmith Arterile Arthur Ashworth Auger Austin B Barker Barnes Barton Bass Beach Bead Benjamin Berry Birdsale Bishop Bradley Bridges Brown Bryan Bryce Burgess Calvorley Campbell Carman Carroll Carye Champeon Chandler Charles Charlton Charnock Cheek Chissom Chow Christopher Clapp Clarke Clies Clois Coates Cockram Codd Connelly Connor Cornelius Creigh Crew Cullomore Dalrymple Daniel Darby Davey David Davis Daws Dennis Derickson Divelly Dominic Dryker Dunkin Dwoouby Ealling Earle Edmundson Edward Edwards Emly Farrow Fasset Fennet Feversham Forbes Francis Fryers Gador Garrison Garrt Gee Geo George German Glinn Goodson Goudet Grahame Gratrick Griffith Harris Hasselton Hawkins Hawks Hays Henry Hill Holmes Hornigold Houghton Hudson Hunt Hunter Jackson Jacob Jacobs James John Johnson Jones Joseph Josiah Kaine Kemp Kerr Kipperson Lamb Legatt Leigh Leslie Lewis Lyell Magness Mahon Mallet Mann Mark Marmaduke Marshall Martin Matthew Mccarthy Merredith Michelbro Michl Miller Mitchele Moggridge Moodey Morgan Morvat Mounsey Murry Mutlow Nabel Nathaniel Nearne Nevill Nicholas Nichols Noland Nowland Othenius Owell Parker Parmyter Paulsgrave Pearse Pelt Perrin Peter Peters Peterson Phillip Pinfold Poley R Raddon Rawlings Reveire Reynolds Richard Richards Richardson Robert Roberts Roger Rogers Roper Ross Rounsivell Rouse Rowld Rt Samuel Savory Scrimshaw Shear Shipton Sinclair Sipkins Smith South Spencer Stacey Stanbury Stillwell Stoneham Stout Sutton Swoord Taylor Terrell Thomas Thompson Titso Townsend Tristram Trouton Turner Valentine Van Vane Ward Waters Wells Wheeler White Whitehead William Williams Williamson Willis Wilson Wishort Woodall Wright

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ENSEMBLE

Shortlisted: After Yang, Bones and All, No Bears, Women Talking

THE NOMINEES ARE:

BENEDICTION

Starring: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels, Calam Lynch, Anton Lesser, Tom Blyth, Matthew Tennyson, Geraldine James, Richard Goulding, Lia Williams, Suzanne Bertish, Julian Sands, Jude Akuwudike, Giovanna Ria

A CHIARA

Starring: Swamy Rotolo, Claudio Rotolo, Grecia Rotolo, Carmela Fumo, Giorgia Rotolo, Antonio Rotolo, Vincenzo Rotolo, Antonina Fumo, Giusi D'Uscio, Patrizia Amato, Concetta Grillo, Koudous Seihon, Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato

HAPPENING

Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Sandrine Bonnaire, Louise Orry-Diquero, Louise Chevillotte, Pio Marmaï, Anna Mouglalis, Fabrizio Rongione, Luàna Bajrami, Leonor Oberson, Julien Frison, Alice de Lencquesaing

NOPE

Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Jacob Kim, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, Wrenn Schmidt, Barbie Ferreira, Terry Notary, Devon Graye, Donna Mills, Osgood Perkins, Eddie Jemison, Keith David, Sophia Coto, Haley Babula, Jennifer Lafleur, Andrew Patrick Ralston

AND THE CRISTAL GOES TO...

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Gary Lydon, Pat Shortt, Sheila Flitton, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Jon Kenny, Aaron Monaghan, David Pearse, Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, John Carty