Irish film

Now, this reviewer has to admit. I have been waiting for this film for a long time. I've known the director, veteran documentarist/TV director Paul Duane (making his feature film debut) since I was a teenager, and because we're in the same…

Buona sera, dear readers! With the awards doled out and festivities winding down, it’s time to look back at another top-notch year at the Venice Film Festival. Boasting a stacked programme of mouth-watering premieres, the…

The Cellar centres on Brian and Keira Woods (Eoin Macken and Elisha Cuthbert), who have purchased and moved into an old country house in Ireland, along with their young son Steven (Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady) and teenage daughter, Ellie (Abby…

Dublin filmmaker Kate Dolan’s You Are Not My Mother, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, is the story of Char (Hazel Doupe), a teenager living in a North Dublin housing estate, whose mother, Angela…

While I would mostly recommend it, I’m not sure if there is a more frustrating film this year than Tomás Ó Súilleabháin’s Arracht. We sincerely hope this becomes a landmark for Irish-language cinema, but the more generic storytelling makes…

When a film starts with an eerie composition, a richly colour graded intro in the woods, and the on-screen credit of the “scream queen” Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps) written in bold, red typeface, there is little doubt that we are in…

In this special episode of I Know That Face, Stephen Porzio chats with Dublin based Italian writer-director Chiara Viale about her film The New Music. Now available on VOD, the coming-of-age drama centres on a classically trained pianist.…

Granted a four day release from Mountjoy Prison, petty criminals Ste (Les Martin) and Weed (Declan Mills, The Monuments Men, Red Rock) are warned to ‘be good.’ Ste’s more than happy to comply, hoping to take advantage of their brief freedom…

You probably already know the work of Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman; the co writer/director team behind Extra Ordinary. You just might not realise it. Under their pseudonym D.A.D.D.Y. (Design, Animation, Design, Design Yeah!) they've created…

The Minister for Culture and Heritage Joesepha Madigan has recently approved of the insertion of an additional clause into the Ministries and Secretaries Act 1977. This amendment will be promulgated to secure funding for the creation of…