Martin McDonagh
1) Hangmen
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023. Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022.
What is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no more? 1923. As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it's the rift between old drinking pals Pádraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic tales beloved by millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from the outside world. Dangerous, twisted and funny, Martin McDonagh's new play travels deep into the abysses of the imagination"--
Author
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Who knocked Wee Thomas over on the lonely road on the island of Inishmore, and was it an accident? 'Mad Padraig' will want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves that cat more than life itself." "The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a satire on terrorism, a powerful corrective to the beautification of violence in contemporary culture, and a hilarious face. It premiered at the RSC's The Other...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
13) In Bruges
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated. --
15) In Bruges
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Hit men Ray (Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson, Harry Potter) have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss (Fiennes)."--Container.
