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Most sections of society, no matter how small or niche, can reasonably expect to be catered for by cinema. That includes the target audience for Wild Mountain Thyme, a demographic best described as “anyone who found Ed Sheeran’s ‘Galway Girl’ frustratingly short on stereotypes”. Don’t those people deserve movies, too? John Patrick Shanley, a writer capable of likeable whimsy ( Moonstruck) and utter preposterousness ( Wild Mountain Thyme from his 2014 play Outside Mullingar, which revolves around a minor land dispute and an unrequited romance. He also directed the film, which presumably involved asking the cinematographer: “Can you make everything a bit greener?” ....
11 Dec 2020 On 11 November 2020, the National Leprechaun Museum, the keepers of the flame of whimsical Irish mythology and gentle storytelling, tweeted after watching the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme: “Even we think this is a bit much.” They’re not wrong. John Patrick Shanley’s woefully misjudged romantic drama, based on his play Outside Mullingar, is more Irish than Bono drawing a four-leaf clover into a pint of Guinness, so full of rural quirk, magical enchantment and oversaturated tweeness it makes Hunger. The cast, especially Emily Blunt and Jon Hamm, do their best to breathe real life into the fanciful proceedings, but it is let down by easy stereotypes, a botched tone, a distant relationship to authenticity and one truly brain-melting storytelling decision. ....
It's as if censorship were back: Why Ireland can't watch Wild Mountain Thyme this month irishtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Posted on Thursday, February 18th, 2021 by Ben Pearson John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, is best known for writing the scripts for the Cher/Nicolas Cage romance Moonstruck and for writing and directing two very different movies: 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano and 2008’s Doubt. But Shanley re-entered the zeitgeist last year with his absolutely bonkers romantic drama Wild Mountain Thyme, which featured an ending so unexpected and ridiculous that it set a small corner of the Internet completely abuzz. Now Shanley has set up his follow-up project, a new movie called The Twinkle Brothers that sounds like a whimsical, lighthearted comedy. Get the details below. ....
John Patrick Shanley to Write & Direct The Twinkle Brothers for Rivulet Media comingsoon.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comingsoon.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.