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Directed by Rob and Ronan Burke Starring Brian Gleeson and Jessica Pare Trailer Filmmakers have often made visual poems to the great cities around the world; how many times have we seen New York through Scorsese’s eyes, Los…

Norman Marshall stretched and sighed, the bones in his shoulders and back cracking like gunshots. It had been a long flight and he needed a shower and a cup of coffee, but instead of sitting at his breakfast bar in his bathrobe, Norman…

It’s 1976 and Blondie are travelling back from a recording in Rockefeller Centre Studios in New York City, with then unknown rock n roll photographer Bob Gruen in tow. On the corner of 6th Avenue and 50th Street they come across the wreck…

Irish singer-songwriter Polly Barrett releases her second album Probably Me on September 22, a collection of ten songs with shades of Bruce Springsteen, Kate Rusby, Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard and Planxty. There is much to admire in this,…

“The history of the industry in Ireland has been one of trying to make Irish films with other people’s money.  The result cannot be surprising – we have made other people’s films for other people.” Muiris Mac Conghail (Former Chairman of…