Cinema review: The Meg

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 16, 2018

EVERY NOW and again a movie comes along where it appears the creators had a title and then tried to build a story around it. The Meg - short for Megladon, a giant dinosaur shark - is certainly one of those movies.

Cinema review: Mission Impossible: Fallout

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ETHAN HUNT is back, in the IMF, which hilariously stands for Impossible Mission Force. After an operation gone wrong, three plutonium…things? have gone missing and a scientist who has the ability to turn them into nuclear weapons has been kidnapped.

Cinema review: Incredibles 2

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 26, 2018

PIXAR HAS had a pretty tumultuous few years. Its studio head John Lasseter has stepped down due to alleged sexual miscondonduct for "missteps" and "unwanted hugs". Now the studio, which was known for amazing original work, has just released its fourth sequel this decade, with two more to come in 2019.

Cinema review: Black 47

Films Reviews Mon, Jul 16, 2018

THE CLOSING film of this year's Galway Film Fleadh was the much anticipated Black 47, the Great Famine-era western, with a big budget, an international cast, and it was filmed in our own back yard here in the west of Ireland.

Cinema review: Dublin Old School

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 12, 2018

DUBLIN OLD School is the surely going to be the Irish film of the year. Viral YouTube star - although he probably cringes at the title - Emmet Kirwin, along with co-writer and director David Tynan, has adapted his award winning play for the screen.

Cinema review: Ocean's 8

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 28, 2018

OCEAN'S 8 is a new movie in the Oceans franchise. It is hard to believe George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven came out 17 years ago. It was a fun heist movie with some pretty entertaining sequels. Enough time has passed, and as we are rebooting and remaking anything and everything, why not Ocean's Eleven?

Cinema review: Hereditary

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 21, 2018

HEREDITARY OPENS at a funeral, as Annie Graham eulogises her 78-year-old mother, Ellen, with whom she had a difficult relationship, something she is unsettlingly candid about.

Cinema review: Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom

Films Reviews Thu, Jun 14, 2018

THE ORIGINAL Jurassic Park is, in my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made. Based on the best selling Michael Crichton novel, it was an all-star team of great actors, with director Steven Spielberg at the absolute top of his game.

Cinema review: DeadPool 2

Films Reviews Thu, May 24, 2018

DEADPOOL IS mourning the loss of the love of his life and, despite several attempts at suicide, due to his healing mutant power he cannot seem to be reunited in the afterlife with her.

Cinema review: Revenge

Films Reviews Thu, May 17, 2018

JEN IS a young American socialite brought by her married lover, Richard, for a weekend away in a desert villa. When Richard's friends turn up early - the day before she’s supposed to leave - things start to go wrong for Jen.

Cinema review: The Delinquent Season

Films Reviews Thu, May 10, 2018

THE LIVES of two middle-class married couples in Dublin are thrown into disarray when two of the group begin an affair in the new Irish film, The Delinquent Season.

Film review: Avengers: Infinity War

Films Reviews Thu, May 03, 2018

FINALLY, IT'S here, has already broken records, and has the chance to be the highest grossing blockbuster of all time, finally surpassing 1997's Titanic. This is a movie that is easy to take for granted, but the scale of the story telling is a lot more impressive than any of the CGI.

Film review: The Cured

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 26, 2018

SET IN Dublin a few years after a zombie outbreak, The Cured finds the world is relatively stable again. Subverting the genre before the credits even end, a cure has been found. Happy days.

Cinema review: Rampage

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

RAMPAGE OPENS in space. An off-planet research ship is breaking apart and three vials of genetic altering substance falls to earth. One of them lands in a San Diego wild life reserve run by Davis Okoye, played by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

Cinema review: A Quiet Place

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 12, 2018

A QUIET Place is directed by John Krasinski, who most people will know as Jim from The Office, but do not let that fool you - there are no fourth wall breaking smirks to the camera here.

Cinema review: Isle Of Dogs

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 05, 2018

DIRECTOR WES Anderson is on a bit of a roll. His last two films, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, have been among his best work, but I was a little disappointed at his decision to step back into stop motion animation.

You Were Never Really Here

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 29, 2018

AFTER A Terrence Malick like absence, one of Britain's finest directors, Lynne Ramsay, has a film back in the cinema, following up her 2011 masterpiece, We Need To Talk About Kevin, with another adaptation.

Black Panther

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 08, 2018

FOLLOWING THE amazing and positive reviews Black Panther, Marvel's latest film, has been receiving, I decided to go and see it for myself, and it is a visually astounding film, very intriguing, and surprisingly deep.

Cinema review: Happy Death Day

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 23, 2017

HAPPY DEATH Day is billed as Scream meets Groundhog Day, which is a great idea. The Groundhog Day motif worked really well in 2014’s Edge of Tomorrow and in an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It is a concept that lends itself well to a slasher movie.

Cinema review: The Snowman

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 16, 2017

WITH 2008's Let The Right One In, director Tomas Alfredson made one of the best film I have ever seen - a hauntingly powerful vampire film which has since been remade for an American audience and turned into a stage play.

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