Film Review

Movies about making movies that focus on screenwriters set themselves a difficult challenge. Watching writers amass crumpled pages and empty whiskey bottles while struggling to conjure words on typewriters is hardly as rife with conflict…

About 30 minutes into County Lines, the debut feature from writer and director Henry Blake, there’s a key moment that decides a character’s trajectory. Our protagonist, a troubled teen named Tyler, is speaking to one of his more empathetic…

Do mam-droids dream of electric sheeple? Mother’s wit is a lot sharper than this article’s opening gambit, yet at its heart this is perhaps what the Galway Film Centre/RTÉ Short Film Commission is asking in its darkly comedic take on the…

The Dublin International Comedy Film Festival is taking pride in showcasing movies true to the daring nature of comedy itself. An example of this is their international selection, including the South Korean film, Pretty Man (My Bittersweet…

Filmmaking, for audiences and filmmakers alike, is almost always an exercise in catharsis. We pay to laugh, to cry and to see our heroes win. Matthew Michael Carnahan’s directorial debut Mosul is a cathartic exercise if not for him than…

I'm just going to come out and say it. 2020 has been terrible. Yes, those early months were promising. It was amazing when Parasite won Best Picture at this year's Oscars. The Dublin International Film Festival too had a great line-up.…

You can imagine that if Joe Hill (née King) and Brandon Cronenberg ever met, they would have some real “yeah same” moments. They might discuss the constant comparison to their famous father's work and how it is always part of the…

Netflix is continuing to take the animation industry by storm. Their latest addition to their growing repertoire of animated content is the American-Chinese Over the Moon, telling the story of 14-year-old girl, Fei Fei. Stricken by the loss…

You know how it is - at the start of October, you eagerly volunteer to review His House when it comes out on Netflix at the end of the month; at the end of October, His House comes out on Netflix, and Ireland plunges back into a second full…

The live-action family film has not had a great few years, it must be said. Paul King’s excellent Paddington films were two of the few bright sparks during a time when the genre was beset with rapping chipmunks and an endless supply of…