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GAZE 2022 | Ireland’s Flagship LGBTQ+ Film Festival Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
GAZE International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is pulling out all the stops for the big 3-0. Running from September 28 through to October 2 in the IFI and Light House Cinema, this year's eclectic programme brings us fresh features, beloved…
Subtext | La Vague Moderne: Three Recent French Films
French cinema has always had a reputation for artistic flair. The very word for a great director who brings his vision to the screen, auteur, comes from the French word for author. In France cinema is idiomatically known as le septième art…
Report From 2022 Venice Film Festival | The Banshees of Inisherin on Track for Oscar Glory
They call it The Floating City, a moniker particularly apt during Venice’s International Film Festival, when you find yourself hovering between several film screenings a day on half a croissant and no sleep.
Then again, who needs…
Bohemian Environmental Justice Film Festival to be held at iconic Dublin stadium
The Bohemian Football Club is teaming up with the Oatly Climate/Culture Lab to announce a unique film festival that will take place in the historic Dalymount Park between the 8th and the 11th of September 2022. Football teams from around…
The Godfather At 50 | Cue The Brilliance
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Mario Puzo, The Godfather novel
Released half-a-century ago, The Godfather remains an integral and ageless work of art. Based on the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo and directed…
Subtext | A Pair of Chinese Fantasy Comedy Classics
The idea of a “genre mashup” is a lot less surprising these days than it used to be, though some (like the superhero/comedy style of Takiki Watiti’s Thor movies) still raise a few eyebrows. Genres, though, are a purely cultural phenomena.…
Subtext | The Jeoseung Saja and The Grim Business of Death
One fun aspect of watching foreign shows is learning about the folklore of other lands; whole unfamiliar mythologies. One of these is the fashion in Korean drama for the last few years of shows about “grim reapers”, messengers of death…
80 Years on and Dumbo is Still Flying High
Walt Disney's short-and-sweet tale of a big-eared circus elephant hit Irish cinemas in the summer of 1942. To celebrate, animation expert Joseph Learoyd pays tribute its enduring legacy.
It is hard to think that Dumbo, one of the…
Subtext | The Curious Case Of The Two Yin Yang Masters
Netflix users at the beginning of 2021 were justifiably confused when they noticed two new movies, both Chinese fantasy films, and both with almost identical names. One was The Yin Yang Master, while the other was The Yin-Yang Master:…
Subtext | European Gothic
Born in the 18th century, “gothic fiction” is a genre defined by three key elements: supernatural elements (either actually present or implied), the fear of the unknown, and the idea of the present being haunted by the past. While we most…