One of the unique contributions movies can bring to an audience is the gift of escape. Movies help us escape and experience another time, place or story that is vastly different from our daily ...

Playwright Martin McDonagh‘s first feature, “In Bruges” will open the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2008 in Park City, UT. The festival, set to unveil its complete feature film lineup ...

Martin McDonagh’s feature debut is an impressive one that weaves dark humor with a bit of action while diving into the psyche of a hit man. Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, respectively ...

Martin McDonagh benches the bolder side of his writing skills and tries his hand at genre and plot in his highly erratic filmmaking debut, "In Bruges." Martin McDonagh benches the bolder, brasher side ...

Playwright Martin McDonagh can make audiences laugh, and he can make them uncomfortable about what they're laughing at. He's had a string of hit plays on London's West End, most recently with The ...

In this week's edition of the Screening Room, OnMilwaukee.com movie expert Mark Metcalf looks at "Becoming Jane" and "In Bruges." Bayside resident Mark Metcalf is an actor who has worked in movies, TV ...

Two Irish hit-men – rookie Ray (Colin Farrell) and seasoned Ken (Brendan Gleeson) — have been sent to Bruges, Belgium to cool their heels after a botched job by Ray has claimed an innocent bystander.

I don't have any idea how many people make their living in the real world as hitmen, but an inordinate number do so in the movies. This makes sense, as the lives of assassins are more interesting than ...

A joyous time of year, the holidays serve as a moment to wind down and relax with loved ones. Besides delicious dinners and familial bickering, watching movies is a yearly pastime for many households.

No celebrity hairdresser should ever be allowed near Colin Farrell’s eyebrows with a tweezer. Black, fluffy and gloriously unilateral, they still aren’t the prettiest things about In Bruges; that ...