Cameron Menzies: A Bohemian Rhapsody
September 13th, 2021 | by Ian Patterson
Storytelling on the grandest musical scale returns to Belfast when Northern Ireland Opera dusts itself off after a difficult eighteen …
Film / Theatre Reviews
Color Out of Space
February 28th, 2020 | by Ruairi McCann
After his quarter-century exile from feature filmmaking, writer-director Richard Stanley returns with Lovecraftian passion project Color Out Of Space. It …
Parasite
February 7th, 2020 | by Conor Smyth
In the dystopic locomotion of 2013’s Snowpiercer, Bong Joon Ho charted social hierarchy along the X axis. His new film, …
The Lighthouse
January 31st, 2020 | by Rose Baker
At the beginning of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) arrives on a remote island with his superior, Tom Wake …
Uncut Gems
January 17th, 2020 | by Ruairi McCann
Uncut Gems, writer-directors Josh & Benny Safdie’s fifth feature together, starts full throttle and only occasionally lets up. It is …
Little Women
January 3rd, 2020 | by Conor Smyth
Grab the green bin. Greta Gerwig’s dropped in one last gift. Little Women, the seventh cinematic (re)telling of Louisa May …
Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari)
November 29th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Is this film a Ford, or a Ferrari? Le Mans ‘66 (titled Ford v Ferrari in other territories) is pretty …
Monos
November 14th, 2019 | by Kev Lovski
Every so often, a movie comes along that completely rips up the rule book of filmmaking. Alejandro Landes’ (2011’s Porfirio) does so right …
The Peanut Butter Falcon
October 25th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
“Yeah you’re gonna die, it’s a matter of time. That ain’t the question; question is if they have good stories to …
Joker
October 7th, 2019 | by Kevin Murray
Joker lands in cinemas this week – as heavy with hype as Batman’s toolbelt with gadgets. Not that gadgets and …
