Do you like Cillian Murphy? Then add The Wind That Shakes the Barley to your watchlist now! It is a gripping 2006 Irish war drama directed by Ken Loach, set against the backdrop of the Irish War of ...

The young men move about the muddied hillside engaging in a friendly afternoon game of that national pastime known as hurling. On their way home, they are accosted by a platoon of “Black and Tans,” ...

Movie criticUnless you're named Brad or Angelina, chances are you probably got snubbed -- yet again -- when the Cannes Film Festival sent out its invitations this year. But starting tonight, Cannes ...

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a ...

Read up on the latest The Wind that Shakes the Barley News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. In Ireland, amidst the turmoil of the 1920s struggle for independence from Britain, two ...

The first unassailably great film of 2007, this account of small-town Irish lads circa 1920 who teach themselves the basics of guerrilla warfare—in order to rid their nation of rifle-toting Brits—has ...

Ken Loach’s camera pans and tilts its way through The Wind that Shakes the Barley, as though its wandering gaze is in search of a fixed center, adrift in a world of shifting allegiances and gruesome ...

In Ireland, in 1920, workers from all over Ireland unite and form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the ruthless "Black and Tan" squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland's bid for ...

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