martin mcdonagh Archives

It is heartbreaking, funny, and cringe-inducing all at the same time. And that is a perfect way to describe the experience of watching this dark comedy from Martin McDonagh. This is some very tough subject matter — race relations, bigotry, sexual assault, death, poverty, and domestic abuse are all dealt with To find the comedy in these[...]

It could be a great eleven days for film across London, from the festival opener of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie to Mike Newell's Great Expectation as the festival closer. There are also other significant attractions, such as a 4K Restoration of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, the restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's The Manxman with live performance of[...]

He's got a rare ability for deadpan and even more more so for full on crazy and both of those were put on show in Martin McDonagh's superb In Bruges Essentially Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead And Have To Hide Out In Bruges, it's a wonderful, very dark, very funny movie Now, Farrell and McDonagh[...]