Recipe: Boxty pancakes and bacon for St Brigid's Day Kate Ryan Boxty is a traditional skillet-dish made with potato, butter and flour The traditional skillet-dish made with potato, butter and flour – and served with lakes of butter and sometimes sugar – is perfect with bacon rashers and eggs. The tradition of making, sharing and eating boxty pancakes, or bacstaí, …
The Banshees Of Inisherin laments Pádraic and Colm’s broken friendship but also celebrates it by showing just how toxic it was in the first place. Of course, on a deeper level, Pádraic and Colm’s friendship is a metaphor for the Irish Civil War of 1923 where both sides, in an effort to drive home a point, end up destroying themselves. …
Martin McDonagh first paired Colin Farrell with Brendan Gleeson in his debut feature film, 2008's brutal black comedy In Bruges, casting them as a pair of hit men dispatched to the picturesque Belgian city. The gruff, odd-couple intimacy they affected in that film – Gleeson's practised killer ministering to Farrell's first-timer, rattled by a botched job – underlies McDonagh's latest …
1923 Ireland is wrought with Civil War and death is on the horizon, but the remote island of Inisherin off the coast is occupied by the break up of two friends — Pádraic Súilleabháin and Colm Doherty. The Banshees of Inisherin Director: Martin McDonagh Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Sheila Flitton, Gary Lydon Runtime: 114 minutes …
An old friendship turns sour at the centre of Martin McDonagh's fourth feature, The Banshees of Inisherin. The Banshees of Inisherin movie review: Brendon Gleeson and Colin Farrell in the movie, Pádraic struggles to understand the situation, and straddles with the idea that he has been left behind because he is dull and boring. Its hard to imagine The Banshees …
Before he’d ever even met writer and director Martin McDonagh, Barry Keoghan had a photo of him as the background image on his phone. “I was like, ‘Put the picture on your phone and manifest it,’” Keoghan recalls, speaking at the Ham Yard Hotel in London. I remember one of my friends was like, ‘Why do you have a picture …
A farmer gets dumped by his best friend in 'The Banshees of Inisherin' Enlarge this image toggle caption Jonathan Hession/Searchlight Pictures Jonathan Hession/Searchlight Pictures Because we as a culture can mistakenly equate beauty with shallowness, it's taken time for some to realize what a great actor Colin Farrell is. Gleeson is terrific at showing you the tenderness beneath his outward …
It’s hardly an original insight to note that “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Martin McDonagh’s caustic and mournful new movie, is also his latest work to give its location top billing. That much is clear from his farther-flung plays, like “A Behanding in Spokane,” and also from his movies such as “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “In Bruges.” That 2008 …