“Small Things Like These” is a slim book by an Irish writer, Claire Keegan, that tells the terrifying and true story of the ...

A poignant story about powerful institutions & their influence. It does a lot with little dialogue, leading to something rich ...

"Small Things Like These" starts and ends with the sound of church bells ringing. The first time you hear the bells, it ...

Directed by Tim Mielants, with a screenplay by Enda Walsh, Small Things Like These is based on the 2021 historical fiction ...

The setting for “Small Things Like These” is the quiet town of New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland, and the year is 1985, though were it not for the glimpses of a TV set in a living room or ...

Cillian Murphy of “Oppenheimer” fame plays an Irishman interrogating a system of abuse and forced labor, despite everyone’s warnings to look the other way. By Alissa Wilkinson When you ...

Cillian Murphy has followed up his Oscar-winning outing in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer with the historical drama Small Things Like These, which he also produced.The film is set in 1985 in ...

Murphy goes back to familiar territory in Small Things Like These, but that's no indictment of either him or director Tim Mielants' film, an adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella. In a grey 1980s ...

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to the Oscar-winning actor, Cillian Murphy, about his latest role in Small Things Like These. The film examines abuses committed by the Catholic church in Ireland.

This Irish drama about the infamous Magdalene laundries is based on a Claire Keegan novel and stars Oscar winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) as a coal merchant whose eyes are opened to the church ...

he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the ...