Lindsay Lohan's father Michael is set on doing a Sopranos-type intervention on his troubled daughter for her alleged addiction to prescription drugs. The Sopranos series from How the Irish took over cable TV
It’s been 10 years now since HBO took a chance on a little drama called “The Sopranos” and changed the face of television. Few could gave guessed its success. But nobody would have predicted: that the Irish would come to dominate critically acclaimed drama all over the cable landscape.
HARRY Potter mania swept the world last weekend as the seventh and final book in the wildly popular series finally made its debut, and Irish citizens certainly weren't immune to its charms. Eason's, the main bookstore in the country, reported tens of thousands of fans lining up early on Friday to get their hands on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the torrential rains wreaking havoc on the summer were no detriment at all.
Fans decked themselves out in wizard costumes and were entertained by performers such as fire eaters and jugglers, and staffers at the stores were also decked out in Potter gear.
Brotherhood, the high octane Showtime family drama of Irish gangsters, politicians, blood and betrayal, set in the back streets and boardrooms of Providence, has returned to the airwaves. If you've been missing The Sopranos, this is definitely the best way to get a mob drama fix. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to the show's creator, writer and executive producer Blake Masters about the new season.
Endgame
By Samuel Beckett
Starring John Tuturro, Elaine Stritch
Playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Art
Reviewed by Cahir O'Doherty
IT all comes down to this in the end - you and your own mortality. And the irony is that even if you're surrounded you'll be on your own.
If that sounds bleak, well it is, but it can be strangely funny too.
In A Very British Gangster Irish director Donal MacIntyre grants us an all access pass into the Noonan crime dynasty, a second-generation family of Irish stock. For the first time ever, a gang of contemporary criminals have opened their lives to the cameras to reveal the trials and tribulations of their leader Dominic Noonan, as he lurches from one criminal trial to the next. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to the film's Dublin-born director.
Irish Eye on Hollywood
Liam Cunningham is an Irish actor to look out for as fall approaches. He has built up an impressive resume of Irish and British movies, including Ken Loach's provocative Irish Civil War Epic The Wind that Shakes the Barley as well as Breakfast on Pluto, in which Cunningham co-starred with fellow Irish actor Cillian Murphy. Cunningham's most recent appearance was in the summer horror movie The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor starring Brendan Fraser.