Bring Them Down, 2024. Written and Directed by Chris Andrews. Starring Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready, Susan Lynch, Conor MacNeill, Youssef Quinn, Aaron Heffernan, Adam Behan, and Diarmuid de Faoite. SYNOPSIS: An Irish shepherding family thrust into battle on several fronts: internal strife, hostility within the family, rivalry with another […]
Trailer and images for revenge thriller Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott
MUBI has shared a new trailer for director Christopher Andrews’ BIFA-winning revenge thriller Bring Them Down. The film centres on two farming families in rural Ireland whose ongoing conflict takes a violent turn, leaving their lives forever altered. The cast of Bring Them Down includes Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott, Colm Meaney, Nora-Jane Noone, Paul […]
Movie Review – Wildfire (2020)
Wildfire, 2020. Directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nika McGuigan, Nora-Jane Noone, Kate Dickie, Martin McCann and Olga Wehrly. SYNOPSIS: The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their […]
October Horrors 2020 – The Descent (2005)
The Descent, 2005. Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring and Nora-Jane Noone. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends on a spelunking holiday themselves trapped within the complex maze of dead ends cramped caves. Their ordeal is only worsened when they are forced to fight for survival against […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildfire
Wildfire, 2020. Written and directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nora Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, and Martin McCann. SYNOPSIS: The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Darlin’
Darlin’, 2019. Directed by Pollyanna McIntosh. Starring Lauryn Canny, Bryan Batt, Nora-Jane Noone and Cooper Andrews. SYNOPSIS: Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by The Bishop and his obedient nuns, where she is to be tamed into a good girl. However, The […]
DVD Review – Identicals (2015)
Identicals, 2015. Written and directed by Simon Pummell. Starring Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood and Lachlan Nieboer. SYNOPSIS: None Of Us Are As Unique As We Think. Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. From British writer-director Simon Pummell, Identicals seeks to […]
DVD Review – Estranged (2015)
Estranged, 2015. Directed by Adam Levins. Starring Amy Manson, Craig Conway, Simon Quarterman, James Cosmo, Bob Duff, James Lance, Eileen Nicholas, Nora-Jane Noone. SYNOPSIS: A woman with amnesia from a crash returns to her family home and tries to work out who she was before her accident and why her family are behaving so strangely […]
Brand New-U nightmarish sci-fi romance world premiere today at EIFF
The stark and uncompromising sci-fi/thriller/romance Brand New-U receives its international film premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival today. Taking in a wide variety of influences and themes, the Simon Pummell (Bodysong, Shock Head Soul) directed and written piece explores the sense of self and identity in an atmospheric, art-house inflected narrative. The unconventional film […]
