Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a film that holds back. There’s the story it tells, the story it neglects to tell, and the little winks woven throughout the film that suggest it might have wanted to say ...

Three books of Belfast Noir: "The Sleeping Season, by Kelly Creighton," Who Took Eden Mulligan?" by Sharon Dempsey and "The Ghosts of Belfast" by Stuart Neville (Kelly Creighton/Avon Books/Soho Crime) ...

When Ciarán Hinds accepted the role of ‘Pa’ in Kenneth Branagh’s fictionalized memoir Belfast, he felt honored to step into the writer-director’s personal story, and to be cast opposite Judi Dench.

The word on the streets is that Kenneth Branagh's new autobiographical film Belfast will be a shoo-in for a Best Picture nomination in 2022 That may well be true, but should it be? How much truth is ...

Or, at least, the Academy Award-nominated plot is largely straightforward. The setting — in the midst of a pivotal flare-up of violence during The Troubles — is anything but. The disconnect between ...

Belfast calls them “black cab tours” and they’re one of the most sought-after tourist attractions in town, equal to the museum dedicated to Belfast’s shipping industry and construction of the Titanic.

Twenty-five years after the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland, Belfast still bears the scars of decades of sectarian violence. So-called peace walls are barriers built to keep Catholic ...

Kenneth Branagh pours himself a cup of Big Ben tea, and while the downtown Chicago Peninsula Hotel has many plush and refined components, this particular teapot practically dares its user not to spill ...