Brendan Gleeson

They call it The Floating City, a moniker particularly apt during Venice’s International Film Festival, when you find yourself hovering between several film screenings a day on half a croissant and no sleep. Then again, who needs…

To say the Western is a dying genre would be wrong but it's nowhere near as healthy as it once was. Still, as long as the Coen Brothers are making movies it will never really die. Out this day last year, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs set…

The tragedy and comedy ever-present in the work of the Coen Brothers has never been closer than in their Westerns. From Miller’s Crossing to No Country for Old Men to their unnecessary but textured remake of True Grit. Now with their…

Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell have come a long way since the release of In Bruges back in 2008. The low-budget black comedy, about two hitmen shipped to the Belgian city after a murder gone wrong, signalled a new phase in the careers of…

Half-way through watching Hampstead, something occurred to me. It’s director, Joel Hopkins, has perfected a simple but effective means to stay working. Take a bland, even rote story, with two characters at its centre, ones that are…

There are some actors and actresses who are the cinematic equivalent of a safe bet. Michael Fassbender is one of these performers. Whether it be his collaborations with big-name directors like Ridley Scott or Danny Boyle, his appearances in…

Hi, Guys. Welcome to Tittererer's Digest. How are you all doing? I'm doing fine, in case you were wondering how I was. I ran out of my acid reflux medication over Christmas. So that was a little uncomfortable. I got some over-the-counter…

Twenty something years ago, Tickle Head was a place of dreams. It was here where all the men went out fishin’ and brought home the bacon, or cod in this case. There was a sense of pride in each home, and the people who lived there were…