Martin Keady

Leonard Cohen once said that a great artist meets all your needs, and it’s true.  Shakespeare wrote comedies, histories, tragedies…

It is the holy trinity of cinema: to write, direct and star in a film.  However, such are the difficulties…

Filmmakers stop making films for all kinds of reasons: they die; they lose funding; or they may just lose interest…

John Huston is one of the most important figures in the history of Hollywood, a legendary writer, director and actor,…

Richard Harris is probably the greatest Irish screen actor. Peter O'Toole was half-British and half-Irish, while Daniel Day Lewis only…

Sometimes with great directors, the clue is in the name.  Richard Linklater, for example, is almost too perfectly named.  In…

For all their vast difference in appearances, Bogey is the male Marilyn – the greatest, most iconic and most enduring…

If anything, Shakespeare underestimated the power of music. He thought it was “the food of love," when in fact it…

Often, cinema and sports are antithetical: cinema is usually unable to recreate the natural drama and sheer “what happens next”…