Dublin Film Fest: First Reformed
February 27th, 2018 | by Eimear Dodd
Questions of faith are easy to ask yet hard to answer. In the modern parable First Reformed, Reverend Toller (Ethan …
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Darkest Hour
January 10th, 2018 | by Conor Smyth
Even while he’s having a cinematic moment, Churchill keeps his distance. Christopher Nolan weaponized celluloid machinery for the hyper-technical tension of …
Song of Granite
December 13th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
A non-traditional perspective on a traditional Irish sean-nós signer, Song of Granite tells the story of Galway-born Joe Heaney through …
Happy Death Day
October 20th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
Happy Death Day is a minor slasher remix built around repetition, in a genre already prone to it. Theresa, or …
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
September 20th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
Golden shower, more like. The unpleasant, unrelenting Kingsman: The Golden Circle drenches viewers in water-thin spy adventuring for a demanding …
Wind River
September 8th, 2017 | by Conor Smyth
Taylor Sheridan’s America is an exhausted, shrinking land. Land is a recurring theme for Sheridan, the screenwriter behind two of …
Raw
May 15th, 2017 | by Kev Lovski
The French rarely fail to impress on at least some level with their film-making. Their absolute disregard for cultural taboos …
Silence
January 14th, 2017 | by Kev Lovski
Martin Scorsese has to be commended for taking on the adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s 1966 book of the same name, …
Collateral Beauty
December 21st, 2016 | by Conor Smyth
Like a sharp boot to the arse on your way out the door, David Frankel’s Collateral Beauty closes a miserable, …
Allied
December 20th, 2016 | by Kev Lovski
Allied is one of those films that defies logic. It has all the ingredients needed to make a potential classic, …
