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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser's Best Films of 2020
Films Reviews Mon, Dec 21, 2020
Wolfwalkers: This may be is the best Irish film made in the last 10 years. An absolutely beautifully told story about two young girls in Ireland during the 15th century, it is a cert to be nominated for best animated film at the Oscars and could finally be the winner Kilkenny based studio Cartoon Saloon deserves after being nominated for its last three films. Available on AppleTv+
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