Maria Doyle Kennedy

A Thousand Times Good Night

A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT “Was the picture worth it?” asks the daughter Steph (Lauryn Canny) to her war zone/conflict photographer mother Rebecca (Juliette Binoche). A Thousand Times Good Night’s opening scene is an intense war scene with no dialogue for almost 15-minutes. The middle of the movie is about her family life with kids…

Sing Street

SING STREET Sing Street is a well done Irish movie set in Dublin in the 1980’s.  This film is part drama, part musical, but mostly a good movie. Poor troubled family takes the middle kid Connor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) out of private school and sends him to a free school run by bully Jesuit Brothers and…