On Tuesday, the critically acclaimed film “The Banshees of Inisherin,” written and directed by Martin McDonagh, made its streaming debut on HBO Max. Having picked up a host of critics’ groups awards in the past month, as well as eight Golden Globe nominations this week, this strange, dark and wonderful fable of friendship lost and found on a small (fictional) Irish island, set in the 1920s, is now one of the front-runners for the Academy Awards.
It’s also positioned star Colin Farrell as a shoo-in for one of the Best Actor Oscar nominations, which would be the first for the actor. It caps off a banner year for Farrell, who has starred in four high-profile films this year, including "Banshees."
He started it off co-starring as the Penguin opposite Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” streaming on HBO Max, though you’d be forgiven for not realizing it was him under all the makeup prosthetics. The same week, the distinctly different “After Yang” premiered, a philosophical lightly sci-fi rumination on family, loss and artificial intelligence, written and directed by Kogonada. That film is now streaming on Showtime. He also co-stars in Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives,” about the daring underwater rescue of the Thai soccer team who became stranded in a remote cave. Stream that now on Prime Video.
