Neil Jordan

Though there have been TV adaptations of Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye (Powers Boothe and James Caan for HBO, Danny Glover for Showtime and a busted pilot in 2007 with Jason O'Mara), this is the first theatrically released Philip…

Irish cinema has really blossomed in the past few years. In the 90s and early 2000s, (outside of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan’s work) one could synonymise the country’s output with adjectives like cheap, stuffy and slog. For whatever reason…

Recently HBO drama Vinyl was cancelled due to low ratings and poor reviews. In regards the latter, the general consensus was that the show represented everything wrong about prestige TV -- overblown budgets, over-reliance on drugs, sex and…

“The history of the industry in Ireland has been one of trying to make Irish films with other people’s money.  The result cannot be surprising – we have made other people’s films for other people.” Muiris Mac Conghail (Former Chairman of…