Director: Kelly Marcel Starring: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham Running Time: 109 minutes When an actor reaches the zenith of their critical and commercial popularity, it can result in some truly insane passion projects. Will Smith made an alien movie with M. Night Shymalan to turn his son into a…
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About Keelan Gallagher
Keelan Gallagher is a short story writer, screenwriter and film essayist from Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. His short stories have featured in ROPES Literary Journal and themilkhouse.org. His Irish-language script, ‘An Solas’, was nominated for Best Irish Feature Screenplay at Roscommon Film Festival 2024. His film writing featured in Issue #14 of Pretty Deadly Films.
‘Sure, if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry!’: Ireland’s new wave of Horror-Comedy
We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish Horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. Genre crossovers have been attempted to varying success throughout film history. Sometimes, a screenwriter or director’s experimentation…