‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Film Review: Relentless Charm Offensive Makes Irish-Set Rom-Com Hard to Resist

The Irish accents in Wild Mountain Thyme proved very controversial and now Jamie Dornan has responded to the criticism they received.

Ireland Baldwin has defended her stepmother Hilaria Baldwin after the yoga teacher’s Spanish heritage was publicly questioned. Last week, rumours began circulating on social media that Hilaria had been “faking” her Spanish accent, with some suggesting that the 36-year-old, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, had lied and said her birthplace was Spain.

Jamie Dornan has issued a special Christmas message in a bid to urge people to support a Northern Ireland charity which he says is 'very close to his heart'. As patron of the Northern Ireland Pancreatic Cancer Society (NIPanc) the Co Down native has urged the public to dig deep if they can and support the charity.

It has been a whirlwind few weeks for Dermot Kennedy who today (Dec. 18) makes more Official Irish Chart history.

Jamie Dornan is following in his wife’s footsteps.

Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh-directed feature drama Belfast.

We thought we’d seen it all on Claire Byrne Live but clearly there is nothing the production team on Claire Byrne won’t make their poor mannequin do.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticMovies are constantly coming up with reasons to keep lovers apart for long enough to convince audiences that they genuinely belong together, but “Wild Mountain Thyme” may be the first film in which those obstacles are never made clear. Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) is beautiful.

Running time: 102 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some thematic elements, suggestive comments).

There are two massively acclaimed animated feature films arriving in viewers’ homes this month. One of them, Pixar’s “Soul,” premieres on Disney+ on Christmas Day.

So hasn’t himself from “Fifty Shades of Grey” gone all forty shades of green in the new fillum, “Wild Mountain Thyme,” named for the haunting ballad that we Irish are taught at the teat, and apt to burst into once we’ve a bellyful of stout in us.

John Patrick Shanley follows Doubt with another persuasive argument against playwrights adapting their own work for the screen in Wild Mountain Thyme, a limp dollop of Irish whimsy that never sparks to life. Shanley's 2014 play Outside Mullingar was a mellow charmer that returned with disarming sentimentality to territory not far from the writer's Oscar-winning screenplay for Moonstruck, demonstrating the same faith that true love will eventually surmount all obstacles.

Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese says The Crown TV series is very entertaining, but only ‘if you’re not a member of the royal family’.

Ask any actor, Irish accents are notoriously tricky. Even natives can struggle with regional dialects.

Pop star Rita Ora has been forced to apologise for a second time for breaching COVID restrictions in the UK.

Dermot Kennedy scores the rare chart double on this week’s Official Irish Charts, as his debut album Without Fear returns to Number 1 and single Giants claims the top spot for the first time following his appearance on RTE One’s The Late Late Toy Show.