Film Review

Have you ever met someone you immediately connected with and felt entirely yourself around? Did it all seem too good to be true that you began to question everything around you and before you knew it, your future with this person was…

There is no moment in Ladj Ly's feature-length directorial debut where a character breaks out into song. Yet, the film shares many themes with the iconic musical of the same name adapted from Victor Hugo's 1862 novel. Like Ly’s debut,…

This month, I've watched two middling Netflix originals that I didn't enjoy all that much. But I did admire bits and pieces about both of them, and feel they actually compliment each other well. One is a big, over the top blockbuster that…

Christopher Nolan has a habit of using projects to cleanse his palette of the more typically populist outing that preceded it. Following each entry of his massively successful Dark Knight trilogy, he gave us admittedly large-scale but…

Oz Perkins has become something of a divisive figure within the horror community since his debut The Blackcoat’s Daughter in 2015. The son of the late horror legend Anthony Perkins (Psycho, Crimes of Passion), the filmmaker is known for his…

All art is political - or so the saying goes. Even art that is heavily controlled by censors is political whether through that censorship or the themes that slip through or under the net. Diao Yinan’s fourth feature The Wild Goose Lake…

Unhinged is a strange movie. Not so much in its story but rather who stars in it and the context of its release. The film begins with Tom Hunter – played by Russell Crowe, still carrying the weight he put on playing Roger Ailes – a recently…

You can do anything you put your mind to. You are the master of your own destiny. The thing about self-improvement is that it puts all the weight on the individual. To an extent, we usually have more control over our circumstances than we…

Having quickly grown into one of the country’s most anticipated film festivals, the East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) is back for its fourth edition from July 30 until August 4. This time, however, the event is returning with a twist…

One of the things I think we can all agree on about the Covid pandemic is how absolutely brilliant it has been. There's evidence for that everywhere. If you're reading this in certain parts of the world, your favourite cinema has probably…