In our Q&a series Last Call, we get down to the bottom of every last thing with some of our favorite celebs - from the last time they were starstruck to the last song they listened to. This week, Ann Skelly takes our call.
Ann Skelly has made a name for herself with dramatic roles on Red Rock, Vikings, Kissing Candice, and Rose Plays Julie. Now with The Nevers, the 24-year-old Irish actor is getting to test her comedic chops as inventor Penance Adair. Set in Victorian London, the HBO series follows a group of women three years after a mysterious event gave them all unique abilities. Now known as "the touched," the group have to deal with their newfound powers as they ward off enemies all the while trying to fit into society. Just when things start to look up, their world is shaken to its core by an unexpected betrayal and murder.
Ann Skelly has made a name for herself with dramatic roles on Red Rock, Vikings, Kissing Candice, and Rose Plays Julie. Now with The Nevers, the 24-year-old Irish actor is getting to test her comedic chops as inventor Penance Adair. Set in Victorian London, the HBO series follows a group of women three years after a mysterious event gave them all unique abilities. Now known as "the touched," the group have to deal with their newfound powers as they ward off enemies all the while trying to fit into society. Just when things start to look up, their world is shaken to its core by an unexpected betrayal and murder.
- 5/6/2021
- by Grayson Gilcrease
- Popsugar.com
New Wave Films has dropped the latest trailer for ‘Rose Plays Julie’ which garnered rave reviews from 2019’s BFI London Film Festival.
Directed and written by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor the story follows an only child, Rose who has enjoyed a loving relationship with her adoptive parents. However, for as long as she can remember she has wanted to know who her biological parents are and the facts of her true identity. After years trying to trace her birth mother, Rose now has a name and a number. When she contacts her birth mother, it quickly becomes clear that her birth mother has no wish to have any contact. Rose is shattered. As a renewed and deepened sense of rejection compels her, she travels from Dublin to London in an effort to confront her birth mother, Ellen.
Ellen is deeply disturbed when Rose turns up unannounced, but eventually feels...
Directed and written by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor the story follows an only child, Rose who has enjoyed a loving relationship with her adoptive parents. However, for as long as she can remember she has wanted to know who her biological parents are and the facts of her true identity. After years trying to trace her birth mother, Rose now has a name and a number. When she contacts her birth mother, it quickly becomes clear that her birth mother has no wish to have any contact. Rose is shattered. As a renewed and deepened sense of rejection compels her, she travels from Dublin to London in an effort to confront her birth mother, Ellen.
Ellen is deeply disturbed when Rose turns up unannounced, but eventually feels...
- 2/28/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzig in Dog Day Afternoon The Glasgow Film Festival has announced today that they will showcase new cinema from Ireland and the Baltics in their 14th edition.
The festival, which runs from February 21 to March 4, will also see the return of its free retrospective strand, this year celebrating Rebel Heroes.
Ireland: The Near Shore promises a strong focus on emerging female directors. It will include the Scottish premiere of Nora Twomey’s animation The Breadwinner, about a headstrong young girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban, and the UK premiere of music video director Aoife McArdle’s debut film Kissing Candice. The section will also feature Frank Berry’s award-winning look at teenage life behind bars Michael Inside and Ellen Page in the Scottish premiere of David Freyne’s new twist on the zombie movie The Cured.
The Pure Baltic strand will host the UK...
The festival, which runs from February 21 to March 4, will also see the return of its free retrospective strand, this year celebrating Rebel Heroes.
Ireland: The Near Shore promises a strong focus on emerging female directors. It will include the Scottish premiere of Nora Twomey’s animation The Breadwinner, about a headstrong young girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban, and the UK premiere of music video director Aoife McArdle’s debut film Kissing Candice. The section will also feature Frank Berry’s award-winning look at teenage life behind bars Michael Inside and Ellen Page in the Scottish premiere of David Freyne’s new twist on the zombie movie The Cured.
The Pure Baltic strand will host the UK...
- 11/28/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
By Sinead McCausland
Aoife McArdle's dreamlike Realist wonderland Kissing Candice is an emotionally and visually impressive feature film debut.
The article Toronto Film Festival 2017: ‘Kissing Candice’ Review appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Aoife McArdle's dreamlike Realist wonderland Kissing Candice is an emotionally and visually impressive feature film debut.
The article Toronto Film Festival 2017: ‘Kissing Candice’ Review appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 9/9/2017
- by Sinead McCausland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
With a first scene as stylish as that from Kissing Candice, the words “music video chic” come to mind before you can even discover writer/director Aoife McArdle is a James Vincent McMorrow regular who also released a short in collaboration with U2’s 2014 release Songs of Innocence. Between the oppressive reds and aural manipulation (I thought the volume wasn’t working until the score finally kicks in to augment the titular kiss), you can’t help admiring the sensory craftsmanship onscreen despite having no contextual basis for anything occurring. What begins as a romantic interlude shared between Candice (Ann Skelly) and Jacob (Ryan Lincoln) soon shifts to the latter randomly and silently strolling down the street (through fire) until finally arriving at a bar where the former is inexplicably waiting.
It’s a wild ride oozing sexuality and dark glamour, the weird series of events on display an obvious...
It’s a wild ride oozing sexuality and dark glamour, the weird series of events on display an obvious...
- 9/9/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Acclaimed Irish music video director Aoife McArdle makes her feature film debut in Toronto this year with Kissing Candice, a drama set along Ireland's North/South border.
The coming-of-age feature stars Red Rock actress Ann Skelly and a cast of young up-and-comers, all playing kids desperate to escape the boredom of life in a small seaside town and finding solace in their imagination and in increasingly dangerous escapades.
McArdle made her name with music videos for the likes of U2 (Every Breaking Wave) and Brian Ferry (Loop Di Li) as well as numerous television commercials.
The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive...
The coming-of-age feature stars Red Rock actress Ann Skelly and a cast of young up-and-comers, all playing kids desperate to escape the boredom of life in a small seaside town and finding solace in their imagination and in increasingly dangerous escapades.
McArdle made her name with music videos for the likes of U2 (Every Breaking Wave) and Brian Ferry (Loop Di Li) as well as numerous television commercials.
The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive...
- 9/6/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
High level commercials director Aoife McArdle makes the step to features with her Toronto selected debut Kissing Candice and while the film may have been funded via the Irish Film Board's low budget Catalyst program she certainly hasn't allowed the budget restrictions to limit her visuals one iota. This thing, bluntly, is gorgeous and strange and unsettling all at the same time. Here's how Tiff describes it: This searing drama about youth at risk in smalltown Ireland marks the auspicious feature debut of director Aoife McArdle, a rising star who brings a lush, sensuous eye to even the darkest scenarios. Featuring an arresting performance from Ann Skelly, Kissing Candice is about a girl growing up in a very scary place — and the imaginings that...
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- 9/5/2017
- Screen Anarchy
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