Archive for category: Gabriel Byrne

Updated February 20 Ruth Negga, recent winner of the IFTA Award for Best Actress (Television) for her performance as Dame Shirley Bassey in the BBC production Shirley in 2011, has joined this stellar cast, according to the Herald.ie, and will play an intelligence analyst. Ms. Negga has appeared in Irish [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day to Byrneholics everywhere–and to the reason we are all here: GABRIEL BYRNE! This video Valentine pretty much sums up how we feel, I think, but if something was left out, please leave a comment to remind us. And there are wallpaper Valentines, too, of course, for making [...]

Updated February 16 Three trailers for I, Anna are now available at the Critic.de website: http://www.critic.de/film/i-anna-3660/trailer/ Thanks to Ramona! And here is a new review from Eye For Film: Possibly over-stylised for some tastes it, but films such as Drive have shown that a clear directorial vision guiding a talented [...]

A Moon for the Misbegotten is Eugene O’Neill’s last play. It offers a glimpse into the tortured soul of a character based on O’Neill’s brother, James, who died at the age of 45, of alcoholism. I did not have the good fortune to see Mr. Byrne’s portrayal of the character [...]

While discussing the lack of humor in the latest television version of Great Expectations, Andrew Davies, renowned screenwriter and adapter (Bleak House and House of Cards for television, among many others) dropped a Byrne bomb! — — — Davies’s latest job for the BBC is set during a very different [...]

In his  review of Defence of the Realm, Gene Siskel observes that one of the “acid tests” for determining a good film is if it provokes in you a desire to be part of the world  it depicts. In this case, his response is “Yes!” He is fascinated by the [...]