'Wildfire': Film Review | TIFF 2020

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.

Pop Smoke makes it three weeks in a row at Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart.

Irish immigrants learn it's unwise to persecute witches in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw, a handsome-looking sophomore effort from writer-director Thomas Robert Lee. Aspiring to the artful folk-horror of Robert Eggers'The Witch with a nod to M.

Also Read: What Vanessa Kirby Told Ellen Burstyn Just Before Her 'Pieces of a Woman' Monologue (Video)“Wildfire” is the story of two “Irish twins” who reunite after one of the sisters has been missing and living alone for a full year.

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.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAGC International inked key territory deals during the virtual TIFF market on Donnie Yen action pic The Father.Pacts have gone down with Leonine in Germany and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; DeAPlaneta in Spain; Nordisk in Scandinavia; Rialto Distribution & Vertigo Releasing in Australia & New Zealand; and Signature Entertainment in the U.K.

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.

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.

Irish mythology has found glorious ambassadors in director Tomm Moore and the team at animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Their Oscar-nominated titles “The Secret of Kells” (2009) and “Song of the Sea” (2014) are visionary renderings of their homeland’s lore, and with “Wolfwalkers,” an epic and dramatically mature triumph, a perfect trilogy is complete.

“Wolfwalkers” director Tomm Moore and co-director Ross Stewart joined Carlos Bustamante to talk about the making of their animated folklore film, which they finished off in quarantine to get it ready in time for its premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.

Tomris Laffly There are troubles of the familial kind at the center of “Wildfire,” writer-director Cathy Brady’s gloomy debut feature set in a border town of Northern Ireland. Then there are “The Troubles,” the decades-long conflict between the region’s unionists and nationalists, the aftermath of which gives Brady’s straightforward and overstretched story its faint backdrop.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: After blazing on the London art scene with work that won him the Turner Prize, Steve McQueen established himself as an important filmmaker who showed the unbreakable spirit of an Irish hunger strike in Hunger, and the horrors of antebellum slavery in 12 Years A Slave.

Americans abroad Chloe (Irish actor Denise Gough, better known for her stage work, especially in the National Theatre revival of Angels in America) and Mickey (Sebastian Stan, a.k.a. the Winter Solider in the Marvel franchise) are the central couple in Argyris Papadimitropoulos' latest feature Monday (his previous was Suntan).

Given its pedigree, expectations were undeniably lofty for Wolfwalkers, the final installment in Tomm Moore’s gorgeously animated Irish folklore trilogy, following Oscar nominations for 2009’s The Secret of Kells and 2014’s Song of the Sea. The beautifully rendered result proves to be even more than one had hoped for: a visually dazzling, richly imaginative, emotionally resonant production that taps into contemporary concerns while being true to its distant origins.

Irish mythology has found glorious ambassadors in director Tomm Moore and the team at animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Their Oscar-nominated titles “The Secret of Kells” (2009) and “Song of the Sea” (2014) are visionary renderings of their homeland’s lore, and with “Wolfwalkers,” an epic and dramatically mature triumph, a perfect trilogy is complete.