Richard Flanagan’s novel is about to hit screens. How do its depictions of heroism and valour land in 2025? And were the ...

An Irish adaptation of Garcia Di Gregorio’s acclaimed 2008 film Mid-August Lunch, director Darren Thornton’s Four Mothers is the story of Edward (James McArdle) and his 81-year-old mother Alma (the ...

Pleasant Irish comedy Four Mothers, plus Richard Burton’s origin story, a cracking British thriller, and a slacker vibe video ...

Theres a unique, unspoken bond between Irish mammies and their sons - a relationship built on fierce love, sharp humour, and an often maddening level of ...

In 1942, your prospects as a working-class teenage boy growing up in the Welsh industrial city of Port Talbot were pretty ...

Director Darren Thornton’s charming remake of Gianni Di Gregorio’s Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) brings the story to Ireland, where the people-pleasing debut novelist Edward is left to ...

Dubliner Edvard (James McArdle) has published his first book, a tale of teenage love. His publisher is keen for him to get on the road and do a ...

Out this week in Irish cinemas is Four Mothers directed and written by Darren Thorton. A film I would describe as an ode to ...

The distributors missed a trick on this one. It might have made more sense to release Four Mothers, a breezy Irish comedy ...

Irish director Darren Thornton tells us about his new adaptation of the Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch, which sees a novelist grappling with his ageing mother and three other eccentric elderly mums.

Inspired by the film Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio, brothers Darren and Colin Thornton have added a uniquely Irish ...