'The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw': Film Review

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe winners of the 2020 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards were announced last night, with Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson pic Ordinary Love winning Best Film, presented by Martin Scoresese. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor won Best Actor in Film for Rialto, which also scooped the Scriptwriter prize for Mark O’Halloran.

A big stumbling block when remaking a Hollywood screen classic is often the indelible ownership of an original star. Is there anyone alive who would choose Julia Ormond over Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina? Or Melanie Griffith over Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday? The problem with Netflix's toothless redo of Rebecca is less about casting — although none of the principals is an ideal fit — than lack of a firm directorial imprint.

Joaquin Phoenix is set to reunite with Ridley Scott for a new film about Napoleon.The actor and the filmmaker, who previously teamed up for the 1999 epic Gladiator, will join forces again for Kitbag, which explores the French Emperor’s origins.The film’s title is inspired by the saying “There is a general’s staff hidden in every soldier’s kitbag”.The script will be written by David Scarpa.Scott has just wrapped production on another historical epic, The Last Duel, in Ireland, and he is set to

Also Read: Pixar's 'Soul' to Skip US Theaters for Christmas Day Disney+ DebutJoe Gardener (voiced by Jamie Foxx) is a middle school band teacher in Queens, New York.

Tom Grater, Nancy Tartaglione Focus Features has struck a deal for Wolf, an Irish drama starring George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp. The Screen Ireland-backed picture recently wrapped after a COVID-19-safe shoot.

Also Read: Regal Cinemas and Cineworld Movie Theaters to Close All US, UK Locations This WeekWe open with an interviewee who will provide some of the most damning testimony along the way – Dr.

A gallows stands ominously over the set of The Last Duel, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

“The Searcher,” by Tana French (Viking)Cal Hooper, a Chicago cop whose wife has left him for reasons he does not yet understand, tells himself he’s done with police work. He retires from the force, moves to western Ireland, buys an abandoned country house, and sets to work fixing it up.

LONDON -- Britain's largest cinema chain, Cineworld, will close all its U.K. venues after the postponement of the new James Bond film left a big hole in theaters’ schedules, U.K.

Kodaline have joined forces with Gabrielle Aplin for their new single Everyone Changes.

Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck will be in a Tipperary town until Wednesday filming scenes for new Hollywood film The Last Duel.

Terry Flores Cartoon Saloon co-founder and creative director Tomm Moore will take part in a presentation about his latest film, “Wolfwalkers,” during the 2020 VIEW Conference, along with his co-director, Ross Stewart, and other key artists.“Wolfwalkers,” which generated lots of buzz during the Toronto Film Festival, where it had its world premiere, is the latest film from Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon.

Sam McBratney was an Irish author of books for children and adults, best known for the children’s bestseller “Guess How Much I Love You.”McBratney had written several books before the publication of his most famous work, including the novels “Mark Time” and “The Chieftain’s Daughter.” But it was with “Guess How Much I Love You,” published in 1994, that he achieved quick and lasting success.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film FestivalNikolaj proposes that they test out a theory from Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, which suggests that man’s blood-alcohol level is actually 0.5% too low, and that a small but steady intake of alcohol during work hours would help people reach peak performance.

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticThe devil is in the details in “The Dark and the Wicked,” a horror film that teases out the evil presence descending on a grieving family on a Texas farm, with the same ambiguous, psychological heft of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw.” Writer-director Bryan Bertino’s slender script translates into a low-humming, allusvie narrative (punctuated with occasional gore) of tingling terror.

Two sisters from a Northern Irish town close to the border with Eire, played by Nika McGuigan and Nora-Jane Noone, feel the long shadow of both the Troubles and their own troubled past when they're reunited after a long estrangement in British-Irish co-production Wildfire.