Director-actor-writer Kenneth Branagh filmed a love letter to his youth with the crowd-pleasing, semi-autobiographical “Belfast,” which opens on area screens this weekend. Based on his experiences ...

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In a time of grim uncertainty about the future, "Belfast" sent Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds reaching back into the past. Branagh, who wrote and directed "Belfast," saw the black-and-white ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on March 1, 2022. Find that audio here. Actor-director Sir Kenneth Branagh’s new film centers around a working-class North Belfast family in the 1960s.

Kenneth Branagh has admitted that leaving north Belfast as a child turned him into a loner. The actor and director said the upheaval of leaving Northern Ireland at the age of nine left him with a ...

Belfast details the life of a working-class family in Ireland during the tumultuous ’60s. It portrays long-entrenched conflicts between Catholics and Protestants all through the eyes of a young boy, ...

Kenneth Branagh was born on this day, December 10, in 1960. IrishCentral celebrated by looking back to his long-awaited Oscar win in March last year when Branagh paid tribute to the "island of Ireland ...

Want to know what Kenneth Branagh’s ten favorite films are? The UK website Sight and Sound recently asked the writer/director of last year’s Oscar-winning movie "Belfast" and he gave his choices, with ...

It was nominated for seven Golden Globes but came away with just one – Best Screenplay for Kenneth Branagh. Belfast’s acting nominees Ciarán Hinds, Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe left empty-handed ...

It is bait, but bait works. Especially in the BP category. I also saw this premiere at LFF and it went down an absolute storm with the crowd. (Also an all female producing team screams BP success).

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios’ Michael B. Jordan-directed reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair has added a pair of Oscar winners to its team: Kenneth Branagh (Belfast), who joins in an undisclosed ...

So pleased that all 4 adults were nomianted at AACTA, including Dame Judi Dench!!!! So richly deserved! Belfast is a great movie – I know that there are some on here who don’t like it but it is LOVED ...