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Susan Kerwin spent Covid lockdowns living with up to 140 bats at a time

Friendships dissolve for a litany of reasons. Exasperation. Envy. Fallen scales from gradually or suddenly clearer eyes. Sometimes it’s a last straw; sometimes, an entire bale of hay, parked in plain sight, unnoticed for years.

The great actors revive their mesmerizing interplay, surrounded by breathtaking Irish scenery and a brilliant ensemble cast.

Three Billboards and In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh reunites Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in this deliciously melancholy tale set in remotest 1920s Ireland

Brendan Gleeson, Swedish drama and a plate of potted crab bring us all the way back to the rugged west of Ireland

'Martin [McDonagh] throws you into some very dark corners'

Director, playwright, screenwriter and four-time Academy Award nominee, Irishman Martin McDonagh is back after the Oscar-nominated triumph that was “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017) with the Ireland-set, pitch-black comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin.” The film reunites actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, whose performances helped make his acclaimed 2008…

The Irish actor hasn’t always picked his parts well - but he’s starting to. Maddy Mussen charts his rise to fame, and how he’s managed to get a hold on it

'Martin (McDonagh) throws you into some very dark corners'

In this week’s newsletter: Martin McDonagh’s sad, funny Banshees of Inisherin has unexpected moments of true gruesomeness – just like every other hit these days

Filmed in the late summer of 2021 on Achill in Co Mayo and Inis Mór in County Galway, the movie has already received a 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival and has been credited as one of Brendan's greatest performances