Another weird western as McDonagh and Gleeson reunite in Calvary

John Michael McDonagh puts a gun-toting priest at the heart of new film ‘Calvary’, says Alan O’Riordan

RELAXING with a drink in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel, film director John Micheal McDonagh says “the film is almost a western, in a way. The Guard was, too. Maybe that’s all I make — these weird westerns.”

McDonagh is speaking about his latest film, Calvary, a companion piece to his under-the-radar hit, The Guard.