Posts Tagged ‘boondock saints 2’

Saints star in town for special screening

Friday, November 13th, 2009

After 10 years, the Boondocks Saints have come out of hiding, and Sean Patrick Flanery says all your questions about the vigilante fraternal twins will be answered in the new film.

However, if you need more answers, Flanery will take your questions after the screening of The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day at 7:50 tonight at the Edwards Marq*E Theater, 7600 Katy Freeway.

Flanery, who grew up in Sugar Land and often returns to visit his parents, stars as Connor MacManus. In the 1999 film, Connor teams with his brother Murphy (Norman Reedus) to rid Boston of evil. It’s a bloody job.

When the sequel opens, the violent brothers have been living undercover in Ireland with their father, Il Duce (Billy Connolly). The murder of a beloved priest brings the Saints back to Boston. They find a comrade, played by Clifton Collins Jr. (Star Trek), and dodge an FBI operative, played by Julie Benz (Dexter).

Flanery says the … READ MORE

Thanks, ~Wendy

The Irish Rican Takes On BOONDOCK SAINTS 2!!

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Ryan ‘Irish Rican’ McLelland here -

I found BOONDOCK SAINTS a couple years after it had hit on video. When I was serving in the military the pilots who flew at night used to watch it incessantly before going off to fly in the helicopters and for some reason I always would walk in during Willam Dafoe’s drag scene. This scene never made me want to actually sit down and watch the film. But something stuck with the pilots and the film, even calling themselves ‘The Bastardos’ after a throwaway line in the movie. One night they forced me to sit down and watch it and I was instantly hooked. Since then I’ve watched the movie once a month for the next six years.

There seems to be two very different camps for BOONDOCK SAINTS: the ones who… READ MORE

Sean Patrick Flanery Talks “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day” And More!

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

feature-sean-patrick-flaneryTo many of his fans, Sean Patrick Flanery will always be one half of one of the greatest action duos of all time, The McManus Brothers. It would be his performance alongside Norman Reedus in “Boondock Saints” that would help spawn one of the biggest cult sensations in movie history. Throughout his career, Flanery has proved to be anything but a one-trick pony. This dynamic actor has continued to grow his already impressive resume by immersing himself in the characters and continually testing his limits as an artist.

Over a decade after the original film debuted, Flanery and Reedus find themselves reprising their iconic roles in a sequel that many people never … READ MORE