A brutally violent directorial debut, Christopher Andrews’ rural Irish drama “Bring Them Down” veers between pitch-black humor and pervading melancholy. A tale of fathers, sons, and mutilated sheep, it toys with narrative point of view in “Rashomon”-like fashion, but keeps pressing questions of masculinity and cycles of sadness hovering just out of view. Fittingly, like … Read more
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Ireland all-rounder Simi Singh is in critical condition due to acute liver failure and urgently needs a transplant. Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom, who confirmed the situation, described it as “shocking” to learn that 37-year-old Singh was seriously ill, and sent him “best wishes and prayers… as he takes on this new fight”. After … Read more
DUBLIN: An Irish state inquiry uncovered a “truly shocking” level of sexual abuse at religious schools, primarily those run by the Catholic Church, over nearly a century with 2,395 allegations, the government said on Tuesday. The preliminary “scoping inquiry” found 884 alleged sexual abusers at more than 300 schools across the country between 1927 and … Read more
J.R.R. Tolkien famously said that “cellar door” is the most beautiful pairing of words in the English language. You’re not likely to think so fondly of the phrase, however, while watching “Fréwaka,” an old-dark-house horror movie in which said door — red and creaky and decorated with a rusty horseshoe that radiates the very opposite … Read more