![]() ![]() ![]() It’s funny and heartbreaking and thought-provoking all at the same time. Irish playwright Martin McDonagh wrote and directed this pitch-black crime-comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as Irish hitmen who are ordered to hide out in Bruges, Belgium, after a hit gone horribly wrong. She suddenly must choose between her new life in America and her old but improved life in Enniscorthy. ![]() When a tragedy sends her back to Ireland for a visit, Eilis finds a new potential love interest (Domhnall Gleeson) as well as other new opportunities in her hometown. Nick Hornby earned an Academy Award screenwriting nomination for adapting Colm Toibin’s novel about a young Irishwoman named Eilis (Saoirse Ronan, who at 21 earned her second career Oscar nod for this lush and lovely best picture nominee) who immigrates from her small hometown of Enniscorthy to Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1950s.Īlthough she is desperately homesick for her mother (Jane Brennan) and especially her older sister Rose (Fiona Glascott) at first, Eilis eventually settles into her new home and finds love with a charming Italian-American plumber named Tony (Emory Cohen). "Brooklyn" (2015)ĭirector John Crowley creates a tenderly beautiful love story that is given more depth because of its visually stunning tale of self-discovery. Despite the band’s dubious beginnings, Conor pulls together a solid group of musician mates and finds fulfillment and an unexpected knack for writing songs.īoasting classic ‘80s hits from Motorhead, Joe Jackson and The Cure and terrific new songs penned by Carney, Gary Clark, Graham Henderson, Zamo Riffman and Ken and Carl Papenfus of the band Relish, “Sing Street” will have you dancing like the first time you heard Duran Duran play “Rio,” especially if you grew up in the ‘80s. ![]() Set in inner-city Dublin in 1985, “Sing Street” chronicles the efforts of bullied teenager Conor Lawler (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) to start a band to impress a beautiful aspiring model (Lucy Boynton). ![]()
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