American presidents have been seen on TV almost as long as television has existed (Fdr managed to do so as far back as 1939), but Showtime’s “The Comey Rule” — which chronicles the rocky relationship between Donald Trump and his administration’s inherited FBI staff, led by director James Comey (Jeff Daniels) — presented a truly unique challenge: casting an actor to play the most historically controversial leader of the free world while he was still very much in power and mounting a tense second-term campaign, surrounded by an endless news cycle that always threatened to permanently change the ongoing national narrative.
For hairstylist Orla Carroll, “Comey” handed her a distinct challenge, which was to follically transform the physically imposing, chameleonic Irish actor Brendan Gleeson into the nation’s 45th President Donald Trump, whose hair is almost as synonymous as his visage. “The most important thing for me and for Brendan, especially...
For hairstylist Orla Carroll, “Comey” handed her a distinct challenge, which was to follically transform the physically imposing, chameleonic Irish actor Brendan Gleeson into the nation’s 45th President Donald Trump, whose hair is almost as synonymous as his visage. “The most important thing for me and for Brendan, especially...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Fearnet is proud to present brand new fiction from Nightmare Magazine. Once a month, we'll be featuring a story from Nightmare’s current issue. This month's selection is “Sleep Paralysis” by Dale Bailey. Please tell us what you think and enjoy!
Sleep Paralysis
Dale Bailey
I am subject to dreams, especially one of a curious type in which I wake on my back, unable to move, my arms pinned to my side, my legs straight. My paralysis is complete, and a thick darkness pervades my bedchamber, a darkness of an almost viscous weight, so that I can feel it pressing upon my face and bearing down against the bedclothes. And there is something else, as well: a sense of obscure doom falls upon me. Something worse than death—I am an undertaker, accustomed to death; we are old friends, death and I—though what it is, I cannot say or guess.
Sleep Paralysis
Dale Bailey
I am subject to dreams, especially one of a curious type in which I wake on my back, unable to move, my arms pinned to my side, my legs straight. My paralysis is complete, and a thick darkness pervades my bedchamber, a darkness of an almost viscous weight, so that I can feel it pressing upon my face and bearing down against the bedclothes. And there is something else, as well: a sense of obscure doom falls upon me. Something worse than death—I am an undertaker, accustomed to death; we are old friends, death and I—though what it is, I cannot say or guess.
- 4/9/2014
- by FEARNET Staff
- FEARnet
This brutal Irish comedy-thriller is a little too determinedly eccentric, but highly watchable
This is yet another brutal Irish comedy-thriller, all bullets, booze and blarney. The chief figure in its line-up of usual suspects is Brendan Gleeson, who made his name as the infamous crook Martin Cahill in John Boorman's The General and co-starred with Colin Farrell in Martin McDonagh's classic Irish crime movie, In Bruges. This time, in a movie scripted by Mark O'Rowe (who wrote the outstanding TV film Boy A), Gleeson is a Dublin underground boss sending his heavies to collect gambling debts from small-timer Cillian Murphy, who gets unexpected assistance from two would-be suicides, his errant dad (Jim Broadbent) and a depressed girlfriend (Jodie Whittaker). The characterisations are a little too determinedly eccentric, the result highly watchable.
ComedyCrimePhilip French
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our...
This is yet another brutal Irish comedy-thriller, all bullets, booze and blarney. The chief figure in its line-up of usual suspects is Brendan Gleeson, who made his name as the infamous crook Martin Cahill in John Boorman's The General and co-starred with Colin Farrell in Martin McDonagh's classic Irish crime movie, In Bruges. This time, in a movie scripted by Mark O'Rowe (who wrote the outstanding TV film Boy A), Gleeson is a Dublin underground boss sending his heavies to collect gambling debts from small-timer Cillian Murphy, who gets unexpected assistance from two would-be suicides, his errant dad (Jim Broadbent) and a depressed girlfriend (Jodie Whittaker). The characterisations are a little too determinedly eccentric, the result highly watchable.
ComedyCrimePhilip French
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our...
- 3/28/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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