Director – Rich Peppiat – 2023 – Ireland, UK – Cert. 18 – 105m **** A fictionalised origin story about an Irish language rap band as a music teacher teams up with two younger men to turn their confrontational, anti-British poetry into Irish rap music – provocative sex-, drugs-, and violence-laced music biopic is out […]
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- Post date August 23 2024
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