

And yes, I’ve tried it and I shall regret that fact until the day I die. For anyone else who still doesn’t know what I’m referring to…just know that it’s probably one of the last things you want to have in your tea. Now, I’ve been informed that brown sauce seems to be very UK/Ireland-centric but for any Americans out there, I’m told steak sauce is similar.

And ruining said tea with generous amounts of brown sauce.
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O’Byrne), a bus driver who apparently has a wife with expensive tastes in kitchen decor, we then switch to two young shelf-stackers at the local supermarket taking a tea-break. And if you think that face wouldn’t be enough to get someone out of their car, just remember he’s also wielding a shovel.Īfter a brief scene introducing us to Mick (Brian F. And the award for best ‘Holy heck, did not see that coming’ opening goes to… His victory is short-lived, however, since two security officers with the world’s best timing choose that moment to come into the cafe and Lehiff ends up being chased from the store and leaping onto a car in the road, ordering the owner to get out. And he keeps being all sweet and charming right up until the last customer leaves the cafe…at which point he punches her in the nose, vaults over the counter and starts robbing the till. The film begins with a young man called Lehiff (Colin Farrell) being all sweet and charming and talking to a waitress behind the counter in a shopping centre cafe about life, love and affordable kitchen appliances while said waitress makes doe-eyes at him. And actually with a cast like this (Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, and Colm Meaney) it’s surprising that so few people seem to have heard of it.

Intermission (or ‘ interMission‘ as it’s labelled on the DVD case) is a story of a bunch of generally-not-very-nice people in what looks to be one of the more generally-not-very-nice areas of Dublin (I’ve never been to Ireland so please forgive me on that), and their various misadventures. From one black comedy to another – though this one is much more obviously played for the comedy – I present to you an all-too-often overlooked thing of Irish wonder.
