Saw this trailer the other day in the cinema. First time I got excited about a trailer in ages. Didn’t know the Coen Brothers, Ethan and Joel, were working on a movie, and I didn’t know Javier Bardem was working with them. Javier Bardem is an incredible actor. See ‘Mar adentro’, ‘The Dancer Upstairs’ and ‘Before Night Falls’ for proof.

I’m not going to talk about it anymore now, or I’ll only build it up and be disappointed…

UPDATE: If I paid more attention to Eoin’s posts I might have noticed this film before now… but I got distracted by his talk of their next film after this, Burn After Reading.

Saw these on drawn. Pretty funny.

With just over a week to go it is time to start booking your tickets for Howie The Rookie in the Granary New Director’s Festival. Mark O’Rowe’s play gets a new lease of life in Eoin Ó hAnnracháin’s first outing as a director. Nick Kavanagh and Stephen McCann take on the roles of The Howie Lee and The Rookie Lee respectively in what is sure to be must see theatre.

Mark O’Rowe’s Howie The Rookie is a journey through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable, where the most brutal events take on a mythic significance. The events of one evening unfold through “baroque monologues climaxing in sudden, irresistible bursts of mayhem.� - Jason Zinoman, New York Times