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Ged Murray

Ged Murray is a Dublin based filmmaker. 'Filmmaker' was the No.1 option on a school career aptitude test. No. 2 was 'Pig Unit Operator'.
His short film 'Small Time', starring Alan Stanford, won Irish and International awards and played at Palm Springs. He is currently found co-directing music videos as half of 'Spiceburger'.

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Film Review | Gaspar Noé’s Climax Says Nothing Loudly

Ged Murray Sep 21, 2018

There are two schools of thought when it comes to Gaspar Noé. One is that he's a gimmicky edgelord, delivering nothing but empty shocks. The other that he is a stylistically and formally daring provocateur creating visceral, experiential…

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Film Review | The Nun’s Cardinal Sin is Squandering Its Potential

Ged Murray Sep 9, 2018

Surely part of the point of creating an Extended Universe tm is that, aside from the marketing angle, you get to create a sandbox; a larger network of shared stories that can each do their own thing. The Nun, the latest in The Conjuring's…

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Film Review | Black 47 is Ireland’s Django Unchained

Ged Murray Sep 1, 2018

The trope of the hero who's wronged by evildoers is a common one on screen. It's normally little more than an excuse to justify righteous, cathartic bloodshed. Lance Daly's Black 47, a Famine set, Irish Western, ups the ante by asking…

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Film Review | Bloodless Blockbuster The Meg Lacks Teeth

Ged Murray Aug 11, 2018

How can a movie about Jason Statham fighting a giant, prehistoric shark be this dull? For those not in the know, here's the premise; Jason Statham fights a giant, prehistoric shark. As infantile shlockbuster pitches go 'The Meg's is…

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Film Review | Cruelty and Kindness Mingle in the Wonderful Summer 1993

Ged Murray Jul 20, 2018

Summer 1993 is a portrait of a child having her world upended that manages to be kind without puling punches and sad without being maudlin. It's a great achievement for the feature debut of Spanish director Carla Simón. The story concerns…

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Film Review | I Feel Pretty Swaps Its’ Star’s Charisma for a Preachy Message

Ged Murray Apr 30, 2018

The premise of I Feel Pretty has raised many an eyebrow since the first publicity materials found their way online. The elevator pitch is something like this; 'an insecure, overweight woman, after being dinged on the head, wakes up…

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Film Review | Cowboys Ride in to a Bulgarian Village in Western

Ged Murray Apr 13, 2018

In spite of it's title, Valeska Grisebach's Western takes place in Bulgaria; an area that was once a frontier of sorts for Germany during a brief and particularly dark moment in history. The German workers sent to build a power plant in the…

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Film Review | Cannes Winner The Square Finds Comedy in Discomfort

Ged Murray Mar 15, 2018

Ruben Östlund's last film, 2014's brilliant Force Majeure, unflinchingly scrutinised a middle class Dad and his family coming apart after one huge fuck up. It's heightened cringe comedy came from the director's ability to relentlessly…

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Film Review | Torturous Damo and Ivor: The Movie – A Big Step Backwards for Irish Comedy

Ged Murray Mar 13, 2018

The reaction at the press screening for Damo and Ivor: The Movie was like a group of people watching newsreel footage of the Germans taking Paris. The stony, resigned silence was broken only by the desperate yammering coming from the…

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Oscar Snub | Why Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was Cruelly Omitted

Ged Murray Feb 22, 2018

The Oscars are, at least in theory, meant to be about acknowledging the best of the best of an art form. In practice this can result in little more than a tool for boosting the box office take of middlebrow dramas via a one night pageant…

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