Brendan Gleeson

Banshees star Barry Keoghan: from foster homes to breakout Oscar contender

The young Irish actor overcame a tragic childhood to earn an Academy Award nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin

Vanessa Thorpe

28, Jan, 2023 @3:36 PM

Oscar nominations 2023: the full list

From The Banshees of Inisherin to Everything Everywhere All at Once, all the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards, which take place on 12 March

Guardian film

24, Jan, 2023 @5:22 PM

Joy in Ireland after country’s film talents bag 14 Oscar nominations

Strong showing for Irish actors and directors, with one film, The Banshees of Inisherin, up for nine awards

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

24, Jan, 2023 @5:18 PM

Banshees of Inisherin shines light on Ireland’s west coast in tourism spin-off

Despite film’s macabre plot, campaign featuring its actors and locations draws millions of views

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

30, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

Film: Mark Kermode’s 10 best of 2022

From Hindi crime drama to medieval teen empowerment, Graceland to Bradford to Iran, the year was rich in unforgettable performances

Mark Kermode

18, Dec, 2022 @9:00 AM

The Banshees of Inisherin review – flawless tragicomedy of male friendship gone sour

Three Billboards and In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh reunites Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in this deliciously melancholy tale set in remotest 1920s Ireland

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

23, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM

What links Colin Farrell to Sex and the City and a pint of plain?

Brendan Gleeson, Swedish drama and a plate of potted crab bring us all the way back to the rugged west of Ireland

Larry Ryan

22, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM

The Guide #57: Is it just me, or is everything we watch getting more gory?

In this week’s newsletter: Martin McDonagh’s sad, funny Banshees of Inisherin has unexpected moments of true gruesomeness – just like every other hit these days

Gwilym Mumford

21, Oct, 2022 @11:01 AM

‘Fellas like us like to talk about our feelings’: Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson on art, fatherhood and their odd-couple bromance

Everyone’s favourite Irish double act are back together for The Banshees of Inisherin – a film about male friendship that spurs them to reflect on how they instantly bonded 14 years ago

Danny Leigh

21, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM

Saturday Night Live: Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell try an average episode

The Banshees of Inishirin co-stars crop up on this week’s show along with spoofs of Netflix’s Blonde, The Try Guys and The Little Mermaid

Zach Vasquez

09, Oct, 2022 @1:20 PM

Martin McDonagh: ‘No one really tries to make sad films any more’

The London Irish writer-director on his bad early plays, enjoying a quiet home life with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and his latest film – a friendship breakup movie starring In Bruges’ Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson

Miranda Sawyer

02, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM

Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy

A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings

Jonathan Romney

10, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM