Inisherin

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Flee from 8-bit Colin Farrell The Oscars celebration may be over, but The Banshees of Inisherin live on in video game form. Over on this site, you can play Banshees: The Game, a pixel-y game based on the Academy Award-nominated film. Created by Cogs & Marvel, this little retro-style game does indeed take after The Banshees of Inisherin. It’s got some lovely pixel work, including great illustrations of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. How exactly does it play? Well, it’s basically Pac-Man. And that leads me to my…

Oscar-nominated film The Banshees Of Inisherin has been transformed into a free Pac-Man style arcade game, which tasks players with getting Brendan Gleeson’s character Colm Doherty to the pub with all of his fingers. Titled Banshees The Game, the 8-bit video game adaptation has been created by Cogs & Marvel (via Rock Paper Shotgun). The goal of the game is to navigate Colm through an Irish countryside maze, collecting all of his severed fingers before making his way to the pub in the centre. Along the way, Colm is…

At Sunday night’s Oscars, The Banshees of Inisherin is up for nine awards. However, some feel it should be 10.The fisherman knits worn by Pádraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson) throughout the film have gained something of a cult following, leading some to question … where is the best jumper award?Knitwear shops in Ireland have reported a spike in sales of traditional jumpers following the release of the film. On TikTok, there are videos of Gen Z scouring secondhand shops to find similar woollies, while the…

There’s something about The Banshees of Inisherin that feels a bit unreal. Maybe not just something; a lot, perhaps all of it. It starts from the moment you see dull old Padraic marching across the green hills of his unspoilt home with an enormously gormless look on his face. From that point, you know something is up.Pádraic is played by Colin Farrell, someone who can try to cover himself in as many layers of tediousness as he likes but will still exude hot sex. The backdrop, too, an Ireland that may never have existed…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJim Sheridan sent a playful response to Martin McDonagh after The Banshees of Inisherin broke his Oscar record. For years, the renowned Irish director’s 1993 movie In the Name of the Father held the record as the Irish film to have landed the most Academy Award nominations.Later, in 2022, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast would go on to tie Sheridan’s record with seven nods. However, this…

For Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin, composer Carter Burwell reunited with Martin McDonagh after collaborating with the director on In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Using such instruments as the harp and the celesta, he began composing the score while focusing on Colin Farrell’s Pádraic, building upon the tragedy and sadness that his character encounters throughout the film. In total, the score took six to eight weeks to compose, though he’d already begun…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe Banshees of Inisherin director Martin McDonagh has revealed the film’s Irish crew disagreed with the name of a Bafta award category that the movie was nominated for. The 2023 Bafta Awards were held at London’s Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre on Sunday (19 February), as exceptional films and performances were honoured during the ceremony. Accepting the Outstanding…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMartin McDonagh, the man behind the nine-time Oscar nominated comedy The Banshees of Inisherin, was noticeably absent from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) list for Best Original Screenplay.The British-Irish director’s main award season rivals Steven Spielberg, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and Todd Field all secured nods in the top WGA category.It comes after all five directors…

The premise of the film The Banshees of Inisherin – now attracting awards like a magnet – is encapsulated in an early exchange between the two main characters: Colm abruptly ends his longstanding friendship with Pádraic, who, understandably, seeks an explanation.“I just don’t like you no more,” says Colm.“You do like me,” says Pádraic.“I don’t,” says Colm.Although many of the codes of straight male friendship are unspoken, there are two obvious breaches of protocol here. First, one never ends things overtly – the demands…