Film review: Here Before

Films Reviews Wed, Feb 23, 2022

WINNER OF Best Film at the 2021 Galway Film Fleadh, Here Before is now on general release, and it is a great time of year for a modern noir-ish film.

Film review: Death On The Nile

Films Reviews Wed, Feb 16, 2022

A SEQUEL to the remake of Murder On The Orient Express, a mild hit in 2017, Kenneth Branagh is back directing and starring as Hercule Poirot for what I can only assume is the nice pay day which allowed him to make a more personal project like Belfast.

Film review: ​​Doineann

Films Reviews Wed, Feb 02, 2022

SET ON the Aran Islands, Doineann (Irish for storm) centres around a husband searching for his missing wife. It debuted last year at the Galway Film Fleadh and is now on general release.

Film review: Nightmare Alley

Films Reviews Wed, Jan 26, 2022

THIS IS the best time of year film-wise, we are getting all the Oscar contenders and every week there is a new movie worth seeing in the cinema.

Film review: Belfast

Films Reviews Wed, Jan 19, 2022

WE ARE beginning to see some films coming out now that have been written and produced during the lockdowns. The first genuinely interesting one - to me anyway - is Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical Belfast.

Film review: Licorice Pizza

Films Reviews Wed, Jan 12, 2022

PAUL THOMAS Anderson has a new movie out. Which is the best news. I do not think any director working in the English language is as constantly interesting as he.

Film review: The Tragedy Of Macbeth

Films Reviews Wed, Jan 05, 2022

DO WE need another version of Macbeth? There was quite a good version in 2015 with Micheal Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, and two really terrific versions from Roman Polanski and Orson Welles.

The best movies to watch at Christmas

Films Reviews Wed, Dec 22, 2021

FOR ME, the best part of Christmas is sitting around the TV after a big feed, and watching a movie, while trying not to get stuck with the Bounty in the box of Celebrations.

The best films of 2021

Films Reviews Wed, Dec 15, 2021

10. Censor: Terrific horror movie about a film censor who must sit through endless violent films for her job. One day she thinks she sees her missing sister in a film and sets out to find her. Electric performance from Irish actress Niamh Algar. Not available to stream yet.

Film review: The Power of the Dog

Films Reviews Wed, Dec 01, 2021

SET IN 1920s Montan, the film follows two cowboys, brothers Phill and George, but they are not stereotypical cowboys.

Film review: The Card Counter

Films Reviews Wed, Nov 17, 2021

THE CARD Counter was produced by Martin Scorsese and directed Paul Schrader, the man who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

Film review: Last night in Soho

Films Reviews Wed, Nov 03, 2021

ELOUISE IS off to London for her first year at fashion college. It has been her dream for years and despite some mental health struggles, she is very excited.

Film review: No Time To Die

Films Reviews Wed, Oct 13, 2021

THERE IS no point in going over the story of No Time To Die as all the Bond films follow the same blueprint - there is a villain threatening the world. Bond must stop him. He does.

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.

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