Film / Theatre Reviews

Stirrings Still @ Samuel Beckett Happy Days Festival

August 3rd, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

Rain pours steadily and the water lies in pools on the road, shooting up like silver ribbons as the bus …

July 30th, 2015 | by Conor Smyth

The fidelity that musical biopics tend to have towards the chronology of public record – especially when the subject or …

July 28th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

Talks related to Samuel Beckett are an integral feature of the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival. This year, the …

July 28th, 2015 | by Conor Smyth

The last time James Franco and Jonah Hill were in a movie together, 2013’s This is the End, Hill got a …

July 27th, 2015 | by Colm Laverty

Doug Aitken’s Station To Station – a collagist multimedia project spanning numerous major US cities and “off-the-grid” locations – is …

July 27th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

Ten spectral figures, white-faced, in white night-clothes come slowly onto the stage. They stand stock-still and silent in the dim …

July 27th, 2015 | by John Higgins

Eden is a cautionary tale based on the life of director Mia Hansen-Love’s brother Sven and shows the dizzying highs …

July 23rd, 2015 | by Conor Smyth

Ant-Man is a small guy but he comes with a lot of baggage. With the high-profile mid-production replacement of Edgar …

July 17th, 2015 | by Joe Madsen

Nearly two and a half years after its Dublin premiere, the wildly successful Once returns to Ireland for a run …

July 1st, 2015 | by Loreana

I really didn’t want her to die. I mean, it’s a ludicrous thing to say: this is Amy Winehouse. We …