‘The Incomer’ Review: Domhnall Gleeson Gets Hurled Onto a Rocky Shore and Pelted With a Deluge of Aggressively Quaint Quirk

‘The Incomer’ Review: Domhnall Gleeson Gets Hurled Onto a Rocky Shore and Pelted With a Deluge of Aggressively Quaint Quirk

The British Isles can be treacherously vulnerable to twee overload in movies, though last year’s The Ballad of Wallis Island showed that it can be avoided, remaining a minor-key charmer even while it embraced every oddball eccentricity that writer-stars Tom Basden and Tim Key could concoct. Louis Paxton’s The Incomer is not so resilient. Set…

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#‘White House Plumbers’ Review: Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux in HBO’s Exhaustingly Hijinks-Heavy Watergate Comedy

#‘White House Plumbers’ Review: Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux in HBO’s Exhaustingly Hijinks-Heavy Watergate Comedy

As a piece of history, the Watergate scandal is a daunting narrative smorgasbord. There were too many characters in this madcap dramedy and they almost all beggar belief — one outlandish caricature after another — except that they’re all real. It’s a problem that Hollywood has solved by telling the Watergate story over and over…

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#’Frank of Ireland’ is a live-action ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’

#’Frank of Ireland’ is a live-action ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’

“#’Frank of Ireland’ is a live-action ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’” “Frank of Ireland,” starring Dublin-born actor brothers Domhnall and Brian Gleeson, is a hit-or-miss affair. The six-episode, half-hour comedy series, premiering April 16 on Amazon, has some funny moments while sometimes veering into a live-action, sophomoric take on dim-bulb pals “Beavis and Butt-Head.” Younger brother Brian…

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