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 ...

During the Troubles, a harrowing 30-year conflict over the constitutional status of Northern Ireland, music opened up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Ciarán Hinds accepted the role of ‘Pa’ in Kenneth Branagh’s fictionalized memoir Belfast, he felt honored to step into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three books of Belfast Noir: "The Sleeping Season, by Kelly Creighton," Who Took Eden Mulligan?" by Sharon Dempsey and "The Ghosts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rated PG-13. At AMC Boston Common, Landmark Kendall Square, Coolidge Corner Theatre and suburban theaters. An Irish “Roma,” the similarly black-and-white memoir “Belfast” drops us into the life of a 9 ...