Film / Theatre Reviews

Docs Ireland: The Silence of Others

June 14th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth

“Spain is covered in mass graves.” Buried wells of grief and pain stir underneath Spain’s transition from decades-long dictatorship to …

June 7th, 2019 | by Jack O Higgins

Gloria Bell is something of a gear change for Sebastián Lelio after his Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman. That film was …

June 7th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth

2016’s Handsome Devil, a minor hit and the second film from Irish director John Butler, turned on issues of gay …

May 31st, 2019 | by Conor Smyth

The world is ending. And even if politicians don’t know it, blockbuster cinema does. Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the …

May 30th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth

How is it possible for something to be both the same, and less? It’s a curious philosophical achievement Disney have …

May 3rd, 2019 | by Ian Patterson

Confusão: chaos, anarchy, confusion. The word runs through Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow’s Another Day of Life like a …

May 3rd, 2019 | by Kev Lovski

I don’t know if it’s the diet or something in their water supply, but Iceland seems incapable of creating bad …

April 26th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth

God bless Robert Downey Jr. As Tony Stark, the lonely tin man with a hole in his chest, Downey Jr. …

April 23rd, 2019 | by Ian Patterson

“Nothing. But was that not something?” A stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novel Watt is a fairly mad endeavour. Dense, …

April 22nd, 2019 | by Conor Smyth

Wrapping up this year’s Belfast Film Festival, Michele Devlin and Mark Cousins took to the podium and paid tribute, in …