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The Banshees of Inisherin to Thelma: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A great cast helps Martin McDonagh’s bitter tale to sparkle with sensitivity and grim humour, while Thelma delivers an engaging comic adventure featuring no-nonsense seniors

The Guardian - UK

The Lieutenant of Inishmore review – the fur flies as Martin McDonagh’s cat-loving thug returns

Julian Moore-Cooke is terrific as Padraic, avenging his pet, but the mix of humour and gory violence needs fine-tuning in this revival

The Guardian - UK

The Lieutenant of Inishmore review – savage satire that lacks real bite

Martin McDonagh’s black comedy about a violent republican terrorist can feel like a parody of 007 in its action but it is hard to be stirred by the dully repetitive scenes

The Guardian - UK

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Behind the Scene No. 7: can you guess the movie from the image?

Based on this mystery image, can you correctly guess the movie in this week's game of Behind the Scene?

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10 celebrity couples you might not realise are in a relationship

Joe Alwyn has been dominating headlines this week saying he wants the details of his relationship with ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift to stay private. The Kinds of Kindness actor said: “As everyone knows, we together – both of us, mutually – decided to keep the more private details of our relationship private.” He…

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Martin Mcdonagh To Headline Career Retrospective At Hong Kong Festival

Renowned playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh to lead masterclass at 48th HKIFF, showcasing his acclaimed works in theater and film.

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Barry Keoghan reveals he nearly lost his arm from rare flesh-eating bacteria

The Irish actor caught a case of necrotizing fasciitis shortly before shooting ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

The Independent UK

Brilliant Colin Farrell crime comedy leaves Amazon Prime Video next month

Treat yourself to this brilliantly black comedy before it leaves Prime Video

Lost reels: 15 directors pick great films you won’t find on UK streaming

Many films – even classics such as Eraserhead and Chungking Express – remain surprisingly unavailable online to UK audiences. We asked film-makers from Martin McDonagh to Charlotte Wells to pick their favourites

The Guardian - UK

The Banshees of Inisherin made me rethink male friendship and loss

Opinion | A writer takes pause to consider The Banshees of Inisherin and male friendship at the movies

Total Film

Is Phoebe Waller-Bridge engaged? Fleabag star sports diamond ring at brother’s wedding

The star had sparkle on her ring finger at the Chiswick wedding of her brother Jasper and Downton star Michelle Dockery

Evening Standard

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery marries Jasper Waller-Bridge in intimate London ceremony

Jasper’s sister, Emmy-winning British actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge, led the army of British film and TV talent at the wedding, including Lily James and Lesley Manville

The Independent UK

Film-maker Martin McDonagh calls no campaign ‘rightwing swine’ for using scene in voice referendum ad

Response comes after Fair Australia shared clip from Seven Psychopaths with face of Anthony Albanese superimposed over gun-toting thug

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Martin McDonagh shows support for writers at Venice Film Festival opening night as A-listers bow out

The Oscar-winning director posed for press shots in a T-shirt that read ‘Writers Guild On Strike’ and a matching button

The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival: T-shirts replace red carpet glitz as striking stars lie low

Support for the Hollywood strikes is evident as festival hopes its strong line-up makes up for lack of glamour

The Independent UK

Lily Allen hurried off stage during The Pillowman play in ‘emergency evacuation’

Audience was escorted outside while the fire brigade investigated a ‘false alarm’

The Independent UK

Lily Allen says she has applied to drama school following critical reviews of The Pillowman

Actor and singer is currently in the West End revival of Martin McDonagh’s dark 2003 play

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The Independent UK

Lily Allen halts The Pillowman play after audience member ‘collapses’

Actor and singer plays a writer of disturbing short stories in revival of dark Martin McDonagh play

Wales Online

Who is Indiana Jones star Phoebe Waller-Bridge? Rise to fame, Oscar-nominated partner and net worth

Phoebe has been in multiple big film franchises over the course of her career

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dear England; The Pillowman; The Third Man – review

Joseph Fiennes scores as Gareth Southgate in a rousing football drama; Lily Allen glimmers in a low-voltage Martin McDonagh revival; and a musical Third Man hits a bum note

Evening Standard

The Pillowman at the Duke of York’s review: Lily Allen is compulsively watchable in this wickedly funny work

Martin McDonagh’s swaggering play wrong-foots the audience throughout

The Guardian - UK

‘I do like a shock’: Martin McDonagh on why casting Lily Allen in The Pillowman makes it even more electrifying

His 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today’s audiences? The writer-director explains why he won’t be changing a thing

Belfast Live

The Beauty Queen of Leenane review: Show will have you feeling a rollercoaster of emotions

Martin McDonagh's dark comedy brings to life the realities of mental illness

Belfast Live

Dark comedy play by the director of The Banshees of Inisherin performing at the Lyric Theatre this month

Winner of four Tony Awards and nominated for an Olivier Award, the play conjures up the unbearable tension and loneliness of an isolated existence

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