Chris O’Dowd’s fingerprints are all over Small Town, Big Story. The six-part series, which the Roscommon man wrote and directed, tells the tale of a fictional village in rural Ireland clinging ...

Like “Donnie Darko,” it mixes sci-fi and mysticism for an unsettling view of the world as a cosmic enigma that the main characters will never be able to understand or control. “The Box” is ostensibly ...