Gabriel Byrne to star in “Coup”

Update: Many others are reporting on this great news now, including The Hollywood Reporter (ooooh, and while you are there, check out the latest Academy Awards News!), The Stage, and TheaterMania. Here is the official press release from Channel 4, dated January 24, 2012: Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Miller’s […]

Gothic: Byron, the Romantic Rebel

Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Coleridge will all be remembered for their poetry. Byron will be remembered for his poetry as well, but he may be remembered even more for his rebellious, seductive, creative, and heroic life–a life as notable for its scandals as its literary achievements. A peer of the realm, […]

“I, Anna” World Premiere + More Movie News

Variety reports: “Young Adult,’ ‘I, Anna’ to unspool in Berlinale Special Jason Reitman’s “Young Adult” and Barnaby Southcombe’s “I, Anna” are among the latest international pics selected for this year’s Berlin Film Festival. “Young Adult,” with Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt, and “I, Anna,” a noir thriller starring Charlotte Rampling, […]

“Le Capital” Update

We heard previously via Twitter that Gabriel was in Florida shooting this film and here is a picture of him there with a colleague: Filming in Florida in the middle of winter. Someone has to do it! Other filming locations include London, New York City, and Paris. Cineuropa provides some […]

RTÉ’s Silver Anniversary

Nothing seems more appropriate, as we head into the New Year, than looking back over the fifty years of programming provided by RTÉ and celebrating the past. WorldIrish.com [As of September 8, 2016 this website is no longer available] has created a profile of what was originally called Telefis Éireann in […]