barry keoghan

The making of a good sandwich is a difficult thing. Sometimes even the tiniest decision can bring the entire creation down. Pairing ham with cheese? Genius! Adding pesto to some plain ol’ chicken? Wonderful! Adding raw onions to anything?…

Tension simmers throughout Calm With Horses as nearly every interaction runs the risk of erupting into violence, every scene on the brink of exploding into blood and brutality. It’s through the looming threat of merciless beatings and even…

On this episode of I Know That Face Stephen Porzio and Andrew Carroll go native with a discussion on BAFTA Rising Star nominee Barry Keoghan. Perhaps best known as the psychotic cat murderer Wayne in Love/Hate, Keoghan has starred and…

"An idle mind is the devil's playground"

Bart Layton has made two films in his career. Somehow, he’s made the same one twice and yet somehow, he very much hasn’t. Both his debut feature, the intoxicating The Imposter, and his breezy follow-up American Animals deal with true…

September 5 will see the release of one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Irish movies of all time Black 47. Directed by Lance Daly, and set against the backdrop of the single most horrific event in Irish history, the film tells the story…

You may rightly question what place an old-fashioned war-epic like Dunkirk has in the modern blockbuster landscape but thinking it’s a war epic would be your first mistake. This is much closer to a survival-horror film. Within seconds of…

A couple of weeks ago on unusually warm, sunny afternoon, Alan Bennett and I sat down with Rebecca Daly, director of The Other Side of Sleep and Joyriders, to discuss her new film, Mammal.. ‘Ultimately, it’s a love story,’ Daly said.…