Anyone catch the new BBC drama series, Quirke, last night? It stars Gabriel Byrne (who I could watch in anything and everything - I just love him) as a pathologist who investigates suspicious deaths in 1950s Dublin. It's all very noir, lots of dark scenes and rain. But then it is Dublin, I suppose, so the rain probably goes without saying ( Read more... )

I caught the end of Little Women on TV earlier, and it got me thinking about Jo and Laurie. Is there anyone who ever read that book or saw the various movies and was happy that Laurie ended up with Amy? It's just not right! Laurie and Jo, it's the way it was meant to be. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Gabriel Byrne as Friedrich, I would totally ( Read more... )

It's on HBO, five nights a week. It's about a psychotherapist, played by Gabriel Byrne, and his patients, one for each day of the week. I'd heard vaguely about it and I downloaded a couple of episodes to take with me on my laptop whilst I was off on my enforced interview break ( Read more... )

I was reading the interview with Gabriel Byrne in today's Sunday Times Culture magazine and he was talking about how he wants to make an Irish Magnificent Seven with him, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson and Stephen Rea. Now, seriously, those four in a movie together ( Read more... )

I'm watching this movie called Lamb and it opens with a crying Liam Neeson in a Catholic dog collar. A young crying Liam Neeson in a Catholic dog collar! I think I've died and gone to heaven.

For some strange reason, my own personal kink is Catholic priests, the more Irish the better. Whether it's Gabriel Byrne in Stigmata or Paul McGann in The ( Read more... )