BBC Newsline has revealed there are now two projects to make a movie about Paisley’s life. The Paisley family is co-operating with one project and Gary Mitchell has been commissioned to write the script. Another Co Down production company has recieved support from the Film and Television Commission to develop a script. It is unknown if Liam Neeson is still interested.
Coming up to the Halloween holiday, some people might be frightened of the idea of Voices from the Grave – but for others, the chance to hear an oral history of the Troubles from the mouths of two (in)famous protagonists, PUP leader and former UVF member David Ervine, and Brendan “The Dark” Hughes, is not [...] read our review »
How has Ulster unionism arrived at where it is today – fractured and uncertain, yet dominated electorally by the DUP, a party that tells us it offers unionists sure footing in uncertain times? In his latest book, Ulster’s Last Stand? Reconstructing Unionism after the Peace Process (Irish Academic Press, 2010), Prof. James McAuley from the [...] read our review »
Billy Pilgrim ” and then the midwife ran a stake through the little bastards heart thus saving many lives ” The End.
Up round Ballymena way all the wee farmers are preparing to be extra’s (as the third farce)and polishing up the ol’ shotguns for the Mountain scene. Now was it shotgun licences or toilet roll they held up.
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Gav Belfast and Art Hostage, among others have got a mention in the Guardian. Not to mention slugger, look!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,,2039816,00.html
I heard this the other day on Rdaio 4, a friend said it was obvious: The AbominalNoMan! perhaps Yeti, YetIan?
Reckon this film will be boring. All Paisley did was talk vitriol all his life – what are they going to do? Shoot it as a series of rabble-rousing speeches?
He didn’t even make any major changes or take any grand decisions that posed any risk to himself. There’s no narrative here, no emotional crux, just endless stasis.
I do think there should be more films about the North from a Protestant viewpoint, but its up to Protestants to make them. Hopefully they can find more interesting subject matter than a loud-mouthed politician who played it safe all his life and never even challenged himself.