Film

Winter has finally arrived. For fans of Game of Thrones, the wait is over at last. It's been nearly two years since the seventh series of HBO's epic award-winning fantasy graced our screens. After months of hype, the long-running saga is…

Ballybraddan is back for a second season, ten years after its first episode aired. This beautifully animated children’s series tells the coming-of-age story of a group of fifth class students. As this ragtag group try to find themselves,…

They say you can tell a lot about a character by what they want. In Unicorn Store, what the protagonist Kit wants is a unicorn she can play checkers with. Let this be an early warning to those of you with a low tolerance for quirk. Unicorn…

Netflix’s latest original film The Silence has a strong air of déjà vu about it.  It's an almost greatest hits collection of the most popular sci-fi horror movies of the last two years, combining the best of their ideas to try to create…

Straight after pulling a McConnaughey in True Detective season three, Stephen Dorff leads this Irish drama with a supernatural twist. Best known for straight-to-DVD films, the odd collaboration with an auteur and of course Blade, the actor…

“It’s a vocation, something you have to do. You don’t have a choice really. You can’t just shake it off. You’ve just got to make it work because it has to.” This is how Andrew (John Morton), the protagonist of Irish dark comedy/thriller…

Let the obsession begin again.  This week sees the release of season two of 2018’s breakout hit, the stylishly captivating Killing Eve. This British-based crime thriller sprang from nowhere. As most audiences were glued to other…

Manta Ray is the directorial debut of Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, an already acclaimed Thai cinematographer. Even if one didn't know this, watching his first feature makes it abundantly clear. He has a knack for creating memorable imagery,…

The River is a tough movie to review, a stiflingly uncomfortable drama about a stiflingly uncomfortable way of life. Released first in 1997 and written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang, the movie features no music and takes place almost…

Christopher Nolan described Inception as a heist film taking place in the architecture of the mind. Bi Gan's sophomore effort Long Day's Journey Into Night is a neo-noir with the same setting. While the noirs of the 40s and 50s always had…