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As I was walking out of 12 Years a Slave I noticed a majority of the audience stayed back and watched the credits. Apart from during a Marvel movie I’ve only seen this happen a few times – Black Swan, The Social Network and Fruitvale Station. To me it means that a movie has impacted an audience so emotionally they need a moment to collect themselves, in the case of Fruitvale or Black Swan, or a movie is so well made you want to just sit and appreciate every person that contributed to ...

Directed by Justin Kurzel. SYNOPSIS: Macbeth, a duke of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. “One does never speak the name of the Scottish play.” “What, Macbeth?” If only Blackadder was around to lighten the mood. Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s most famous play is dark. It’s nasty. It’s fo...

All the latest with your favorite Irish and Irish-American talent. 1. The Academy Award nominations will not be announced until January 16, 2014, but one of Hollywood’s strongest contenders – expected to get serious consideration in several categories when the Oscar winners are announced in March – is an Irish movie in theaters now. Philomena, starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, tells the story of an Irish woman who became scandalously pregnant in 1950s Ireland and was forced to give ...