Film review: The Many Saints of Newark

Films Reviews Wed, Sep 29, 2021

FOR SOME people this will be the most anticipated film of the year as The Many Saints of Newark is a prequel The Sopranos TV show.

Film review: The Green Knight

Films Reviews Tue, Sep 21, 2021

ON CHRISTMAS Day in King Arthur’s court, a knight enters the banquet hall and offers to be struck by one of knights in the room, and in a year and a day's time the knight must find him and he will return the blow.

Film review: Herself

Films Reviews Wed, Sep 15, 2021

SANDRA IS a single mother in Dublin, living in a hotel, and way down the bottom of the housing list, after escaping her abusive husband.

Film review: The Nest

Films Reviews Wed, Sep 01, 2021

AFTER BEING held back for almost a year, The Nest, the second film from director Sean Durkin, is finally available to Irish audiences.

Film review: The Bright Side

Films Reviews Wed, Aug 25, 2021

DIRECTED BY Ruth Meehan, and based on the book by Anne Gildea, I’ve Got Cancer, What’s Your Excuse?, The Bright Side is a new Irish comedy, although dramedy is a better word for it.

Film Review: Boys from County Hell

Films Reviews Wed, Aug 18, 2021

WILLIAM AND Eugene are two Irish lads in their mid-twenties. They are feeling aimless, and spend their time drinking pints, playing ball, and ripping off tourists.

Film review: Stillwater

Films Reviews Wed, Aug 11, 2021

ON THE surface, Stillwater is one of those ‘ripped from the headlines’ films. Extremely loosely (and controversially) based on the Amanda Knox saga it has already met with a lot of criticism - including from Knox herself.

Film review: Untold Secrets

Films Reviews Mon, Jul 26, 2021

IT HAS been a tremendously successful 2021 Galway Film Fleadh this year. Anecdotally I spoke to several people who had not attended the festival in the past, but did so this year due to the outdoor screenings - and all said they would be back next year.

Film review: Here Before

Films Reviews Wed, Jul 21, 2021

THE RETURN of the Galway Film Fleadh took place on Tuesday, with the amazing weather coinciding with a massively ambitious outdoor/indoor programme.

Film review: Another Round

Films Reviews Wed, Jul 14, 2021

THE PICK of the films that will be screened at the Pálás cinema, which re-opens on Friday July 16, is Another Round, the Danish film which won the 2021 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Freaky - ‘clever in a brainless way’

Films Reviews Wed, Jul 07, 2021

I HAD planned on reviewing the latest Fast and Furious movie this week. While quite enjoyable, they are the same thing over and over again, so Instead I am going to talk about Freaky.

Film review: The Father

Films Reviews Wed, Jun 30, 2021

The big shock at this year’s Oscars was Anthony Hopkins winning his second Academy Award for a little seen movie that did not even have a European release date, despite being a British production and all-British cast.

Cinema review: In The Heights

Films Reviews Wed, Jun 23, 2021

IN THE Heights was written by Lin Manuel Miranda the man who wrote the Broadway behemoth Hamilton, so this is a pretty hotly anticipated film.

Film review: Cruella

Films Reviews Wed, Jun 02, 2021

EMMA STONE plays Estella, a Vivian Westwood type young, aspiring, fashion designer working in a Devil Wears Prada like scenario with her boss, excellently named The Baroness played, magnificently, by Emma Thompson.

Film review: Army of the Dead

Films Reviews Wed, May 26, 2021

IT IS still unknown when the cinemas in Ireland will reopen. Until then we still rely on Netflix. Their films tend to be more miss than hit but every now and again they get a good one.

Nomadland - a beautiful, moving, untraditional film

Films Reviews Wed, May 05, 2021

THIS WEEK on Disney+, the film which won best picture, director and actress at the Oscars has been made available to stream.

Promising Young Woman - an uneasy but important film

Films Reviews Wed, Apr 14, 2021

A YOUNG woman stumbles around a bar drunk. She is being checked out by three guys who laugh at her drunken state, and comment on how they could easily pick her up.

Films to watch on Netflix this week

Films Reviews Wed, Mar 31, 2021

DESPITE THE Oscars being so close, there have been very few good films released recently, so I decided to browse Netflix and see what might be worth your time watching there.

Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 18, 2021

ANOTHER BIG Oscar contender opens this week on demand services - Judas and the Black Messiah, a tense thriller, boasting terrific performances.

Cherry - a film made for awards it will never win

Films Reviews Wed, Mar 10, 2021

THERE IS quite a good podcast called This Had Oscar Buzz, which looks at films from the past that were specifically made to win awards, but for one reason or another, failed to do so.

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