The Moon and the Stars

Director: John Irvin

Year: 2008

The Garden Of Eden is based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Set in the jazz age years, prior to the Depression, the story follows a successful young American writer David Bourne and his beautiful wife, Catherine, on their extended honeymoon in Europe. Catherine soon becomes restless and starts to test her husbands's devotion, pushing him to the limits of her imagination. Already unsure of the games his wife is playing, David is both uncomfortable and curious when she brings a sultry Italian girl, Marita, to spice things up. As the erotic game reaches new levels, the events that follow will change their lives forever.

Director: John Irvin

Year: 2004

It's the late 60s. The English invasion has conquered the world! The Liverpool Sound tops the charts in every country - except Ireland! There, so called Ceili music - a form of traditional music - still reigns supreme. And they're about to hold the annual Ceili competition to determine who's the best band in the land.<br />  <br /> But could the unthinkable happen? Could an upstart English band from Liverpool win the All Irish Championship for the first time in history? Transplanted Irishman Jimmy MacMahon (Colm Meaney) and his motley English crew have their hearts set on it.<br />  <br /> Meanwhile, back in County Clare, Ireland, Jimmy's stalwart older brother, John Joe (Bernard Hill) and his fiesty local band are determined to win the trophy for the third year in a row.<br />  <br /> The long-standing feud between the MacMahon brothers finally boils over as each tries to sabotage the other and win the first prize, by hook or by crook.<br />  <br /> Wnen Liverpudlian Teddy (Shaun Evans), Jimmy's best flute player, falls head-over-heels in love with Anne (Andrea Corr), the beautiful young fiddle player in John Joe's band, her overly protective mother, Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), fears her daughter will end up heartbroken.<br />  <br /> In an attempt to stop Anne from seeing Teddy, Maisie tells her daughter her own deepest, darkest secret - the true identity of Anne's father. He is none other than John Joe's rotten but charming younger brother Jimmy, who promised Maisie the world and then abandoned her once she was pregnant.<br />  <br /> Now, 20 years later, a boldfaced Jimmy shows up - with no apparent regrets - throwing Maisie into a tizzy and infuriating John Joe who was in love with Maisie himself before John Joe stole her heart.<br />  <br /> When all the blarney's said and done, blood is still thicker than water, but - when the time comes to play - who' s going home with the trophy?  Who's going home with Anne?

Director: John Irvin

Year: 2001

Billy 'Shiner' Simpson is determined that today is going to be his big day - his son is about to fight for a boxing world title and make him a millionaire. But Billy's dreams are shattered when his son is knocked out inside two rounds, and Billy becomes convinced that the fight was fixed and that his son took a dive - a suspicion that seems to be confirmed when the boy is shot dead soon afterwards.<br /> <br /> So Billy - his dreams of becoming a big shot in tatters - sets out to discover who was responsible for the death of his son. Was it the rival promoter Frank Spedding? Spedding is a true big shot, American, successful and wealthy, everything Billy aspires to be. Was it his daughter Georgie who knows the family will lose everything if her half-brother loses - has she fixed the fight and bet money on the other fighter? Or was Billy's new bodyguard responsible? Why does he soon disappear after his son's killing?<br /> <br /> And as if Billy doesn't have enough to contend with, the police are after him because they have evidence he ran illegal, bareknuckle fights and want to arrest him.<br /> <br /> Shiner is the fast-moving, humorous, violent, tragic story of a man consumed by ambition - a man who passionately loves boxing - a man who's past catches up with him and who won't accept that he'll never make the big-time.