Articles by: Stella

Here is the official 2011 Byrneholics Holiday Season wallpaper for spiffing up your desktop and getting yourself into the best holiday mood in the world! With all good wishes for a great holiday season and as much merry-making as you can stand. PS. The End of Days Mega Movie Page [...]

Milton got it right, even though he did not intend to do so. Paradise Lost is interesting, as a story and as a poem, while Satan is in the spotlight. As Harold Bloom noted, Milton saw in Satan all his own “best qualities.” God’s fallen angel is an “heroic vitalist” [...]

Isaac Likes, a final review of James X, interviews with the two forces behind All Things To All Men, and more! 1. To get everyone in the holiday spirit, here is a heart-warming story about a chance encounter with Gabriel Byrne. I am not being sappy. It is really heart-warming. [...]

Wherein Stella muses on the peripatetic, soon-to-be Ex Ambassador. Yes, apparently it is true. Gabriel Byrne, the first Cultural Ambassador for Ireland, is stepping down. Eighteen months into his three-year appointment and he is saying “Enough!” I do not blame him one bit. I suspect he has purchased stock in [...]

CharityBuzz is offering you a chance to make your holiday season especially bright (and thrilling!) and also charitable. As they note in their description, the proceeds of this auction will benefit Culture Project, the organization that has helped make this production of James X such a resounding success. Thinking of [...]

Gabriel Byrne: Stories From Home is a documentary directed by Pat Collins. It made its way through the film festivals back in 2008 and 2009 and then quietly disappeared, although it does pop up now and then on television. To our rescue comes Richard Kendrick, the director of photography on [...]