Lucy
August 27th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
After honey-voiced hardware in Her, a blank-faced alien stalker in Under Her Skin and a lycra-skinned super spy in Captain America: Winter Soldier, Scarlett …
Author Archives: Conor Smyth
The Congress
August 25th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
As cut-throat a business as Hollywood may be, it’s inevitably a comedown from the horrible intensities of life in a …
The Expendables 3
August 20th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
The Expendables 3, the latest in Hollywood’s action-star pension plan, confirms the series’ status as the modern action genre’s biggest …
Hector and the Search for Happiness
August 14th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
Soon into Hector and the Search for Happiness, the baffling new leading man vehicle for Simon Pegg from director Peter …
The Purge: Anarchy
July 30th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
2011’s The Purge, written and directed by relatively green film-maker James DeMonaco, was a concept in search of a movie. …
Boyhood
July 29th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is both an aesthetic and logistical triumph. That it exists at all is a victory of sorts, …
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
July 16th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
The first of this Planet of the Apes trilogy, 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, benefited enormously from …
Transformers: Age of Extinction
July 14th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
That the Transformers films, brought to us jointly by Hasbro’s accountancy department and the jock-bro personality of Michael Bay, are …
Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie: A Dissection
July 3rd, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
It is hard to imagine a less fashionable sitcom than Mrs. Brown’s Boys, Brendan O’Carroll’s cash-spewing granny-drag comedy in which …
Road
June 17th, 2014 | by Conor Smyth
For those of us only superficially aware of the annual TT road racing season, an internationally respected series of two-wheel …
